What’s the Significance of the FDA’s Approval of Truvada to Prevent HIV Transmission?
What’s the significance of the FDA’s approval of Truvada to prevent HIV transmission? – In what some experts are calling a “game-changing” endorsement by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the commonly used HIV drug Truvada is now approved for preventing HIV. The drug was already approved for treating people infected with HIV, and it is also already prescribed “off-label” for preventing HIV. But the FDA endorsement opens up the possibility for more widespread use, since it gives insurance companies a new labeled indication for using the drug. In this video, UCSF’s Brad Hare talks about the significance of this approval. C. Bradley Hare, MD is an Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and Medical Director of the UCSF Positive Health Program at San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center (SFGH)
Existing drugs may help more with breast cancer
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The bottom image shows how much these cells shrink after treatment with neratinib, an anti-HER2 drug currently in clinical trials. Article Body 2010. More patients can benefit from highly effective breast cancer drugs that are already available …
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Healthpoint Ltd. to Pay up to Million for False Medicaid and Medicare …
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In January 2011, the United States intervened in, and later filed, a civil False Claims Act case against Healthpoint, alleging that it launched Xenaderm, a prescription skin ointment for the treatment of nursing home patients' bed sores, without any …
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Tuesday's Sports Transactions
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COMMISSIONER'S OFFICE_Suspended Philadelphia C Carlos Ruiz 25 games for a violation of the Major League Baseball's Joint Drug Prevention and Treatment Program. … D.C. UNITED_Announced the resignation of president and CEO Kevin Payne.
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