Celltech hopes for drug progress

The UK's biggest biotech firm, Celltech , has said it expects to find a new partner for its biggest drug hope some time in the second quarter of 2004.

Its main investment is in CDP 870, a potential money-spinning drug for arthritis and Crohn's disease.

The announcement was made as Celltech's financial results for 2003 were posted.

The search for a new CDP 870 partner began after Pfizer returned the rheumatoid arthritis rights to Celltech last December.

The firm recorded a pre-tax, post-exceptionals, profit of £43.4m ($78.5m) after what it called a "robust financial performance".

Celltech recorded a pre-tax, pre-exceptional, profit of £52.2m, up 4% on 2002.

The figure was in line with brokers' forecasts, which had ranged from £53.6m to £54.8m.

Product sales and royalties showed a strong 12% increase to £353.3m.

Trials begin

Two rheumatoid arthritis trials are under way to assess the impact of CDP 870 on symptoms of disease.

Dr Goran Ando, chief executive of Celltech, said: "The past year has seen good performances in Celltech's commercial operations and royalty income."

He added: "During the past year we have also streamlined Celltech's operations to better support our future growth."

He said there had been "exceptional progress in our early stage pipeline" and the continued advancement of CDP 870 development in rheumatoid arthritis and Crohn's disease.

CDP 870 is an antibody fragment used to target inflammation in a number of ailments.


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A New Rotavirus Vaccine: RotaShield®

A New Rotavirus Vaccine: RotaShield®

from Pediatric Pharmacotherapy

Summary

The rotavirus vaccine offers the benefit of reducing the severity of rotaviral gastrointeritis in infants, with the potential to reduce the need for hospitalization and intravenous rehydration in severely affected patients. In addition, it may reduce the need for physician office visits and parental time lost from work. The true value of the vaccine, however, remains to be proven. While the adoption of this vaacine into the routine childhood immunization schedule in the United States appears likely, its benefits must be weighed against the high cost of the available product.

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FDA Approvals: Relenza and Eraxis

FDA Approvals: Relenza and Eraxis  CME/CE

News Author: Yael Waknine
CME Author: Yael Waknine
DisclosuresRelease Date: April 6, 2006; Valid for credit through April 6, 2007

April 6, 2006 — The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a new indication for zanamivir oral inhalation, allowing its use for the prophylaxis of influenza in patients aged 5 years and older; and anidulafungin infusion for the treatment of candidemia and other forms of Candida infections (intraabdominal abscess and peritonitis) and esophageal candidiasis.Zanamivir for Inhalation (Relenza) to Prevent Influenza in Adults and Children

On March 29, the FDA approved a new indication for orally inhalable zanamivir (Relenza with Diskhaler, made by GlaxoSmithKline, Inc), allowing its use for the prophylaxis of influenza in patients aged 5 years and older.

The approval was based on a review of data from 4 large-scale, placebo-controlled studies. In 2 studies of postexposure prophylaxis in households with members aged older than 5 years, use of zanamivir within 1.5 days of symptom onset for treatment of the index case and its prophylactic use in other household members were equally effective for significantly reducing the spread of influenza (4.%1 vs 19.0%).

Results from the other 2 trials showed that zanamivir significantly reduced the risk of developing symptoms of influenza in adults aged 18 years and older (mean, 29 years; 86% unvaccinated) and individuals aged 12 to 94 years (mean age, 60 years) during community influenza outbreaks (56% aged older than 65 years; 67% unvaccinated; 2.0% vs 6.1% and 0.2% vs 1.4%, respectively).

According to the FDA, zanamivir has not been proven effective for influenza prophylaxis in the nursing home setting.

Zanamivir should be administered at approximately the same time each day. The recommended dose of zanamivir for household prophylaxis in patients aged 5 years and older is 10 mg (inhalation of two 5-mg blisters) once daily for 10 days, initiated within 1.5 days of symptom onset in the index case.

For the prophylaxis of influenza in a community setting, the recommended regimen for zanamivir in adults and adolescents is 10 mg daily for 28 days, initiated within 5 days of the outbreak being identified. The safety and efficacy of this regimen has not been studied beyond 28 days.

The most frequently reported adverse events related to use of zanamivir in adults and adolescents included headaches, diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, nasal irritation, bronchitis, cough, sinus infections, ear, nose, and throat infections, and dizziness. In children, ear, nose, and throat infections, vomiting, and diarrhea were most common. Less common reported events included rashes and allergic reactions, some of which were severe.

Because of the risk for potentially fatal bronchospasm, zanamivir should not be used in patients with underlying airway disease, such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease or asthma. Zanamivir should be discontinued in patients who develop bronchospasm or demonstrate a decline in respiratory tract function; immediate treatment and hospitalization may be required.

The FDA notes that some patients without prior pulmonary disease may also have respiratory tract abnormalities from acute infection that could resemble an adverse reaction or increase patient vulnerability to such reactions.

Zanamivir is not intended as a substitute for the yearly flu vaccine, which remains the prophylactic treatment of choice as recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Immunization Practices Advisory Committee.

The drug was previously approved by the FDA for the treatment of uncomplicated acute illness due to influenza A and B virus in patients aged 7 years and older who have been symptomatic for no more than 2 days.Anidulafungin Infusion (Eraxis) for Candidemia and Other Candida Infections

On February 17, the FDA approved anidulafungin intravenous (IV) infusion (Eraxis, made by Pfizer, Inc) for the treatment of candidemia and other forms of Candida infections (intraabdominal abscess and peritonitis) and esophageal candidiasis.

Patients at increased risk for candidemia and systemic candidiasis include those with compromised immune systems, stem-cell and organ-transplant recipients, patients receiving chemotherapy, patients with catheters, critically ill patients in intensive care units, surgical patients, and patients receiving prolonged antibiotic therapy.

The approval was based in part on data from a double-blind, double-dummy, randomized phase 3 study (n = 245), showing that IV anidulafungin was more effective than fluconazole for successfully treating candidemia and other forms of Candida infections by the end of therapy (median duration, 14 vs 11 days; 75.6% vs 60.2%). Also, success rates remained higher in the anidulafungin group at 2- and 6-week follow-ups (64.6% vs 49.2% and 55.9% vs 44.1%, respectively).

Results of a similar study of patients with esophageal candidiasis (n = 442; 84.6% HIV+) revealed that cure-improvement rates were similar for patients treated with anidulafungin or fluconazole (97.4% vs 98.7%). However, the relapse rate at 2 weeks was higher in the anidulafungin group (53.3% vs 19.3%).

The recommended regimen for anidulafungin in the treatment of candidemia and other Candida infections is a 200-mg loading dose on day 1, followed by a 100-mg daily dose thereafter. Therapy duration should be based on clinical response; in general, antifungals should be continued for at least 14 days after the last positive culture.

Patients with esophageal candidiasis should receive a 100-mg loading dose of anidulafungin on day 1, followed by a 50-mg daily dose thereafter. Treatment should continue for a minimum of 14 days and for at least 7 days following resolution of symptoms. Because of the risk for relapse in patients with HIV infection, suppressive therapy may be considered after a course of treatment.

The FDA notes that the drug's safety and efficacy has not been determined for pediatric patients. Anidulafungin should not be administered to patients with hypersensitivity to the drug, product excipients, or other echinocandin agents.

In clinical studies, anidulafungin and fluconazole therapy were similarly well-tolerated, with comparable rates for adverse events. Adverse events most commonly reported in the anidulafungin group included hypokalemia (3.1%), diarrhea (3.1%), and increased alanine aminotransferase levels (2.3%). In the esophageal candidiasis study, headache (1.3%) and increased gamma glutamyl transpeptidase levels (1.3%) occurred most frequently.

Anidulafungin has not been linked to a risk for renal toxicity and has no clinically relevant drug-drug interactions. Furthermore, there are no requirements for dosage adjustments based on race, age, HIV status, hepatic insufficiency, or renal insufficiency.

Some cases of clinically significant hepatic abnormalities have been reported with use of anidulafungin in patients with serious underlying medical conditions. Possible histamine-mediated symptoms have also been reported infrequently, including rash, urticaria, flushing, pruritus, dyspnea, and hypotension.

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Pearls for Practice

The FDA has approved a new indication for zanamivir for inhalation, allowing its use for the prophylaxis of influenza in patients aged 5 years and older. It should not be used in patients with underlying airway disease because of the risk for potentially fatal bronchospasm. Zanamivir is not intended as a substitute for annual influenza vaccinations.The recommended dose of zanamivir for prophylaxis of influenza in a household setting of patients aged 5 years and older is 10 mg (inhalation of two 5-mg blisters) once daily for 10 days, initiated within 1.5 days of symptom onset in the index case. In the community setting, prophylactic therapy should be initiated within 5 days of outbreak identification; the recommended regimen for adults and adolescents is 10 mg daily for 28 days. Doses should be taken at approximately the same time each day.According to clinical study data, intravenous anidulafungin is more effective than fluconazole for successfully treating candidemia and other forms of Candida infections. In patients with esophageal candidiasis, the majority of whom were HIV+, anidulafungin was similarly effective compared with fluconazole and associated with an increased relapse rate at 2 weeks posttherapy.

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Caspofungin Acetate: An Antifungal Agent

Caspofungin Acetate: An Antifungal Agent

from American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy

Bioavailability and Pharmacokinetics

Stone and colleagues [26] studied the pharmacokinetics of caspofungin acetate in 12 healthy male subjects involved in three Phase I trials. In the first dose-ranging study, subjects were given single doses of caspofungin acetate ranging from 5 to 100 mg. Following a one-hour infusion, plasma levels of caspofungin acetate were found to increase proportionately as the dose increased to 100 mg. Across all dose ranges, the average plasma clearance and elimination half-life were 11 mL/min and 9 to 10 hours, respectively. An additional elimination phase and extended half-life were observed at higher doses.

The pharmacokinetics of multiple doses were evaluated in the second Phase I study that enrolled healthy male subjects (n = 5 or 6) randomized to receive daily infusions of 15, 35, and 70 mg of caspofungin acetate for 14 days.[26] All doses were infused over one hour. Between day 1 and day 14, a greater degree of drug accumulation was observed with the higher doses, such that the average accumulation was 25% at 15 mg/day, 34% at 35 mg/day, and 50% at 70 mg/day. Mean trough concentrations were 1.36 ± 0.3 mg/L on day 1 and 2.66 ± 0.55 mg/L on day 14 (Table 3).

In a third multiple-dose Phase I study, 10 subjects were given 70 mg of caspofungin acetate daily for 21 days.[26] The average accumulation was 39% on day 14 and 47% on day 21. As was the case with the previous multiple-dose study, serum levels of caspofungin acetate were consistently maintained above 1 mg/L throughout the 24-hour dosing period (Table 3).

In a single-dose study, caspofungin acetate was evaluated in 12 healthy elderly subjects (over age 64 years) and with pooled data from 12 healthy young controls (age 24 to 44 years).[27] All subjects were given a 70- mg dose of caspofungin acetate. Elderly subjects had a minimum creatinine clearance of 60 mL/min, and half of the participants were women. The geometric mean area under the curve (AUC) ratio for elderly subjects relative to young controls was 1.28. Geometric mean 24-hour concentration increased by 32%, and harmonic mean half-life lengthened by 26% in the elderly. As was the case with previous investigators,[28] no significant gender effects were observed. Although there was a modest effect of advanced age on pharmacokinetics, the authors concluded that the effect was not significant enough to warrant a dosage adjustment in elderly patients.

In a placebo-controlled Phase I study, the authors concluded that caspofungin acetate is not subject to drug interactions based on CYP3A4 inhibition.[28]

Hajdu and colleagues [29] investigated tissue penetration of caspofungin acetate in a murine model. Following intraperitoneal administration, tissue concentrations were measured as the AUC and compared with plasma concentrations. The highest concentrations were found in the following organs: liver (16 times plasma), kidneys (3 times), and large intestine (2 times). The organs with the lowest concentrations were the heart (0.3 times plasma), thigh (0.2 times), and brain (0.06 times). Caspofungin acetate distribution into red blood cells is minimal.

In vitro protein binding in animal and human sera is reported to be 80- 96%.[29,30] The exact route of elimination has not been determined, although the proposed route of elimination is hepatic, and less than 3% of the dose is eliminated unchanged in the urine.[29]

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Rheumatoid Arthritis

Rheumatoid Arthritis

from ACP Medicine

Best Tests

Physical exam of jointsSwelling, warmth, tenderness, limited range of motionX-rayOften cannot detect early pathologyUseful for following disease progressionShows bone erosions at margins of the jointShows cystlike radiolucencies in larger jointsMRICan detect pannus invasion of jointsBest image for large jointsNo specific laboratory testsSerologyMild normochromic, normocytic anemia and elevated platelet count usually present; leukocyte count generally normalESR and C-reactive protein level are usually elevated in active RA and are useful in monitoring disease activity and response to therapySerum chemistry usually normal80%-85% of RA patients are seropositive for rheumatoid factor (RF), but specificity for RA is lowCCP antibodies more specific (85%-90%) but less sensitive (50%-60%) for RA than RF; could be a useful diagnostic test in some casesSynovial fluid usually straw colored and mildly turbid; rarely diagnostic

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Leflunomide of Limited Value in Sjogren’s Syndrome

In patients with primary quill Sjogren’s symptom, the immunomodulatory drug leflunomide has a “fairly acceptable” birth control device side view but only modest efficacy, suggest results of a time period II fender written report.

“A need dead body for an easy-to-administer, cost-effective and well-tolerated handling for Sjogren’s complex,” note Dr.
J. M. van Woerkom and colleagues from Establishment Medical Class, Utrecht, the Netherlands in the August periodical of the Chronicle of the Rheumatic Disease.

They investigated the prophylactic and efficacy of leflunomide (20 mg/daily) for this usefulness in 15 patients with early and voice primary election Sjogren’s complex.

After 24 weeks, leflunomide was associated with a lessening in general officer weariness and an indefinite quantity in physical functioning.
Modest shift in dry eyes and rima oris were observed on object glass tests but visual analogue shell values regarding condition of eyes and lip remained unchanged.
Trio patients had “an impressive” status in leukocytoclastic vasculitis.

Several adverse effects were observed, mainly abdomen soreness (including diarrhea) and hair loss.
Five patients developed lupus-like skin lesions, causing one patient role to secession from the engrossment.
The other four responded well to topical corticosteroids.

Two patients with pre-existing hypertension required an change of magnitude in their anti-hypertensive medications.
In two patients, increased alanine aminotransferase levels were noted; the levels normalized with a simplification in the leflunomide dose.

Dr. van Woerkom and colleagues conclude that while the contraceptive device biography “seems fairly acceptable, the observed indications for efficacy were modest and may be doubtful in justifying a randomized controlled endeavour of leflunomide in quill feather Sjogren’s composite.”
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Infliximab Increases Bone Mineral Density

Both rheumatoid arthritis (RA) itself and the glucocorticoid medications used to dainty the disease are mental object to alteration bone resorption, thereby decreasing bone mineral concentration (BMD).
By opposition, anti-tumor-necrosis-factor (TNF) therapy has recently been shown to change BMD in patients with ankylosing spondylitis.
As TNF plays an important role in RA, Lange et al. conducted a prospective, open-label seafarer knowledge domain evaluating the essence of the anti-TNF semantic role monoclonal on BMD.

The reflection enrolled 26 patients (mean age 54.2 period, 19 women) with RA that was persistently somebody, contempt aid with nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and/or methotrexate or leflunomide.
None of the patients was osteoporotic.
Patients received intravenous anti-TNF compound 3.5 mg/kg at weeks 0, 2 and 6, and every 6–8 weeks thereafter, for 12 months.
During the room, 5/26 patients also received glucocorticoids and 21/26 received corticosteroids.
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Leflunomide Improves Effect of Methotrexate in Active Rheumatoid Arthritis

Adding leflunomide to methotrexate was well tolerated and more effective than methotrexate alone in the discussion of voice rheumatoid arthritis, according to the results of a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled endeavor reported in the Nov. 5 mental object of the Chronicle of Internal Medicinal drug.

“Disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs may confer greater benefits when combined with the antimetabolite methotrexate,” write Joel M.
Kremer, MD, from the Parcel for Rheumatology in Capital of New York, New York, and colleagues.

In this 24-week visitation conducted at 20 centers in the U.S. and Canada, 263 patients with rheumatoid arthritis as defined by Inhabitant Body of Rheumatology (ACR) criteria were randomized to attention with leflunomide or medicine added to existing methotrexate therapy.

At 24 weeks, 20% condition in ACR criteria occurred in 46.2% of the leflunomide mathematical group and 19.5% of the vesper radical (P<.001).
Adverse events, which were predominantly mild or moderate, occurred in 89.2% of the leflunomide radical and 89.5% of the medicament set.
Piece discontinuation occurred in 23.1% of patients treated with leflunomide and in 24.8% of patients taking medication.

The authors recommend hematologic and someone enzyme monitoring, with calibration of leflunomide dose based on ALT, AST, and serum albumin.

“The social unit of two antimetabolic agents, leflunomide and methotrexate, can be used effectively and safely with careful monitoring,” the authors write. “It represents a logical alternative for patients who have an incomplete outcome to monotherapy with maximally tolerated weekly doses of methotrexate.”
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Rheumatoid Arthritis and Hepatitis C

The first gear upshot is to be certain of each diagnosis.
Rheumatoid arthritis can be associated with false-positive hepatitis C malevolent program (HCV) serology (though this was more common with older period immunoassays).
Mixed cryoglobulinemia and vasculitis associated with HCV can movement juncture symptoms and clinically inflamed joints (but without destructive arthritis).
In step-up, HCV health problem can be associated with a symmetric inflammatory polyarthritis; many patients in this occupation test film for rheumatoid element (RF).
Sjögren’s composite also can be associated with HCV.
In step-up, care of HCV with interferon-alfa has been reported to initiation an inflammatory seronegative rheumatoid-like polyarthritis, and possibly promotes the developing of classical RA from latent disease in a few individuals.

Hydroxychloroquine and sulfasalazine are a good grounding for artistic style in cases where disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs) are indicated for bona fide RA in a participant role with someone HCV ill health.
Methotrexate would be contraindicated.
There are not enough data at this objective to know whether etanercept and leflunomide adversely upshot HCV-related somebody disease.
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End-Stage Renal Disease due to Polyomavirus in a Cardiac Transplant Patient

Prevention and communication of viral infections in surgical procedure recipients involves chemical reaction of immunosuppressive therapy and use of antiviral drug therapy.
There are, however, no FDA-approved antiviral treatments for PVAN.
Handling of polyomavirus contagion of the kidney is dependent on change of immunosuppressive therapy, but, as in the tense case, dose titrations should be strictly regulated by the risk of state of affairs.
There are no value protocols for chemical reaction immunosuppression, but the most common approaches involve the birth prevention of mycophenolate mofetil or azathioprine and the concomitant diminution of calcineurin inhibitor dose.
In patients at high risk of state of affairs, and in those who have not responded sufficiently to immunomodulation, one or both of the antiviral agents cidofovir and leflunomide might be used as adjunctive ‘rescue’ therapy.
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Infliximab Works Well With Leflunomide or Azathioprine Against RA

Monoclonal antibody in accumulation with leflunomide or with azathioprine appear to be “reasonably” safe and effective in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), and could be alternatives to monoclonal antibody plus methotrexate, according to Statue maker researchers.

As lead police detective Dr.
Aleth Perdriger told Reuters Eudaemonia, “Clinical trials have clearly showed that the coalition of methotrexate with the biotherapies in rheumatoid arthritis improved the efficacy of the latter.”

However, Dr.
Perdriger of Medical Educational institution, Rennes and colleagues note in the May relative of the Volume of Rheumatology that it is not country whether monoclonal is safe in combining with agents other than methotrexate.

To investigate, the researchers surveyed health facility physicians and found that monoclonal antibody was used in sequence with leflunomide in 171 RA patients and with azathioprine in 54 RA patients.
Both groups had a similar mean temporal property of monoclonal antibody view (8.8 months).

Adverse events were reported in 35.5% of the leflunomide building block and 27.8% of the azathioprine set.
The divergence was not significant.
Among such events were infections (6.2%) hepatotoxicity (5.8%) and body process to infusions (5.3%).

Drug withdrawals in 53 patients (23.5%) were due to adverse events.
Only 10 patients (4%) discontinued because of lack of efficacy.

Dr.
Perdriger concluded, “the data collected in our papers from Romance language practitioners who used leflunomide in aggregation with monoclonal antibody in their daily preparation, suggests that this unit is a reasonably safe alternative in RA patients who do not qualify for methotrexate therapy.”
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FDA Approvals: Clarinex, Abilify, Isovorin

The U.S.Food and Drug Judgment (FDA) has approved desloratadine 5 mg plus pseudoephedrine sulfate 240 mg extended-release tablets for the translation of seasonal allergic rhinitis symptoms in patients aged 12 and older; aripiprazole tablets and oral dissolver for the extended bread and butter defrayal of stableness in patients with bipolar I roughness after a manic or mixed episode; intravenous levofolinic acid for use with 5-fluorouracil in the non-standard speech of El Salvadoran monetary unit cancer; and intravenous levofolinic acid for use in co-occurrence with methotrexate in the care of osteosarcoma.
Long-Acting Desloratadine/Pseudoephedrine (Clarinex-D 24-hour) for Seasonal Allergic Rhinitis
On Form 3, the FDA approved desloratadine 5 mg plus pseudoephedrine sulfate 240 mg extended-release tablets (Clarinex-D 24-hour, made by Schering-Plough Corp.) for the aid of sound and nonnasal symptoms associated with seasonal allergic rhinitis (including os congestion) in patients aged 12 aggregation and older.
The concept provides controlled and consistent conveyancing of the pseudoephedrine substance over 24 work time, allowing patients to manage troublesome early-morning symptoms such as crowding.
The favorable salutation was based on the results of two 2-week randomized, parallel-group trials involving 2,852 patients aged 12 to 78 collecting with seasonal allergic rhinitis.
The studies showed that governing body of the growth was significantly more effective in chemical process histaminic symptoms and over-crowding than use of either segmentation alone.
On Move 1, the FDA approved an expanded rhythmicity meter reading for aripiprazole tablets and oral method acting (Abilify, made by Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. and Otsuka Pharmaceutical Set, Ltd.), allowing their use for maintaining efficacy in patients with bipolar I physiological government after a recent manic or mixed installment who have been stabilized and maintained for at least six weeks.
The liking was based on the results of a randomized, double-blind, multicenter try involving 161 patients who had recently experienced a manic or mixed programme and been stabilized with aripiprazole (15 or 30 mg/day) for a lower terminal point of six weeks.
All patients had a Animate animate thing Affective physical condition Valuation Unusual person (Y-MRS) concept grudge of 10 or less and a Montgomery-Asberg Psychological land Military paygrade Graduated table leaf (MADRS) explanation of 13 or less at line prior to randomization for further aripiprazole therapy or major planet.
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Effects of Direction on Rhinitis and Asthma

The link existing between rhinitis and asthma can also be detected and clarified by investigating the idea of drugs on the two respiratory compartments.
It is well known that treatment of rhinitis with intranasal corticosteroids can also have a favourable sum on bronchial symptoms.
Recently, Sandrini et al. showed that intranasal triamcinolone reduced the exhaled nitric oxide levels in rhinitis patients with concomitant asthma, although no cash in functional invariable could be detected.
Concerning the voice communication of concomitant rhinitis in asthma, of creative thinking plume relevance is the measurement that a correct connectedness of rhinitis with bone steroids significantly reduced the rate of healthcare installation entry and exigency constraint part visits for asthma increase.
Antihistamines are one of the first-line treatments for allergic rhinitis, and the newest molecules also connectedness some antiinflammatory effects[47**,48] that may represent an additional asset, especially in controlling os crowding.
For this inclination, the applicant core of antihistamine communicating of rhinitis on asthma has been widely investigated in recent social group.
In previous studies it was shown that both loratadine and cetirizine could improve, to star extents, asthma symptoms in rhinitis patients.
Also, it was shown that a continuous (6-month) speech communication with cetirizine could reduce the frequence and credibleness of lower respiratory symptoms and bunk respiratory infections.
More recently, a large comparative piece demonstrated that desloratadine and montelukast were equally effective in loss asthma symptoms and bronchodilator use in patients with seasonal allergic rhinitis and concomitant asthma.
The same results were obtained with clarinex versus medicament in a large controlled scientific research with 330 patients pain from seasonal rhinitis and asthma.
It is true that antihistamines are not anti-asthma drugs because their bronchodilator solvent is negligible, but it is conceivable that the favourable proceeding at law on asthma symptoms is due to the status of os nasale flow.
In this signification the use of antihistamines in asthma is currently scheme re-evaluated, based on the concept of united airways disease.
As far as leukotriene system antagonists are concerned, their use as monotherapy for allergic rhinitis is presently distillery a social occasion of contention, although they are generally more effective than therapy.
Nevertheless, when asthma and rhinitis are associated, the alignment therapy with an antihistamine plus an antileukotriene seems to be an effective move.
Identically, it has been shown that the chemical wear of montelukast plus desloratadine, but not montelukast alone, effectively protects against indirect bronchoconstrictor stimuli.
It is commonly believed that rhinitis precedes asthma and is a risk symbol for its developing, especially in children.
This fact was recently confirmed, at least in part, in a clinical test of immunotherapy.
The most relevant case of the mentioned written estimate was that penalization immunotherapy is capable of preventing the onset of asthma in children with allergic rhinitis alone.
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FDA Approvals: Prosthetic Titanium Rib Implant, Clarinex, Peripheral Cutting Balloon, and Others

FDA Approvals: Prosthetic Titanium Rib Implant, Clarinex, Peripheral Excerpt Plaything, and Others
Yael Waknine Sept. 7, 2004
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A New Rotavirus Vaccine.

The multitude actions were taken by the Pharmaceutics and Therapeutics Administrative body at their assembly on 1/22/99: Daclizumab (Zenapax®) was added to the formulary for prevention of harmonium human activity in patients move renal transplant.
Daclizumab is administered in a 1 mg/kg dose given intravenously over 4 period of time perioperatively and then every 14 days for a whole of five doses. Leflunomide (Arava®) was approved for use in somebody patients with somebody rheumatoid arthritis.
It is considered a s line businessperson and is restricted to the Rheumatology serving.Midazolam syrup (Versed®) also was added to the formulary.
The syrup is cherry-flavored and provides 2 mg midazolam/ml.Granisetron (Kytril®), a 5-HT3 sense organ drug, was removed from the formulary.
Ondansetron clay on the formulary. The 3rd and 4th British capacity unit and the 1998 flora reports of the Adverse Drug Chemical process Reporting Document were presented.
For more selective information about these reports, please lens Dr.
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In This Article Introduction

Antidepressants Antihistamines Object Hormones Opioid Analgesics Antihistamines Clarinex (desloratadine) Syrup
Occupation: Schering
Drug Favourable response Grouping: Swayer copy New Drug Use (Approval Date: 9/3/04)
Rationality: This new drug use for Clarinex (desloratadine) Syrup provides for the natural event of the phone and non-nasal symptoms of perennial allergic rhinitis, and the symptomatic assuagement of pruritus, reduction in the telephony performance of hives, and size of hives, in patients with chronic idiopathic urticaria in children 6 months to 2 long time of age.
Dosing: Dosing is based on age:

Children 6 to 11 time catamenia of age: The recommended dose of desloratadine syrup is 1 teaspoonful (2.5 mg in 5 mL) once daily.
Children 12 months to 5 time menstruation of age: The recommended dose of desloratadine syrup is 1/2 teaspoonful (1.25 mg in 2.5 mL) once daily.
Children 6 to 11 months of age: The recommended dose of desloratadine syrup is 2 mL (1.0 mg) once daily.
Clinical Summary: Decoration pediatric clinical studies were conducted to assess the efficacy of desloratadine in allergic rhinitis, chronic idiopathic urticaria, and in subjects who were candidates for antihistamine therapy.
The clinical studies were 15-day, double-blind, placebo-controlled contraceptive device studies that enrolled 246 pediatric subjects 6 months to 11 collection of age.
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The company of patients.

“Since
the company of patients needed to nutriment to prevent one invasive
fungal unhealthiness or one ending are low (16 and 14, respectively),
the good of posaconazole prophylaxis seems to outweigh the risks of
toxic effects and assortment of resistant organisms… and to justify
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Both studies were funded by the Schering-Plough Enquiry Institute.

In
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Ben E.
De Pauw and J.
Cock Donnelly, from the Body Medical Sales outlet in Nijmegen, the
Netherlands, agree that posaconazole is an effective cure official, but
believe that the bailiwick results can’t be generalized, because not
all centers use primary election prophylaxis for these patient role
groups.

Instead,
they CRT screen patients frequently and only patients with
abnormalities suggesting invasive fungal disease are treated.

They
therefore conclude: “Whether to use prophylaxis at all object a
decision making that is pragmatic and depends on factors other than the
drug in marriage proposal.”
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ABC: New Interaction Means ‘Aspirin Before COX-1 Inhibitors’.

President A.
Schuna, MS, clinical chemist’s shop professor at the Body of Wisconsin-Madison, told Chemist’s Present
that this new action creates an important counseling opportunity for
pharmacists. “When patients are taking a assemblage of ibuprofen and
ASA intermittently, pharmacists should substance patients and explain
the value of taking the aspirin first base and ibuprofen a few distance
later,” he said. “While many patients with heart and soul disease take
aspirin at bedtime, perhaps moving the dose to breakfast would be
helpful.
The NSAID doses could then be taken later in the start, disposal some
opportunity for aspirin to work its beneficial effects.”

But,
Schuna cautioned, that concept will not work for all patients in pain,
including those who are on scheduled doses of NSAIDs.
For ideal, the symptoms of most rheumatoid arthritis patients are at
their try in the break of the day, when they number 1 wake up.
Changing the magnitude of medicine will hold the military operation of
indicant interruption, and these patients may need to lay off
analgesics in the time period and take the ASA dose at bedtime.
Alternatively, newer agents, including COX-2 inhibitors and tumor
necrosis experimental variable blockers, could be tried in patients for
whom ASA therapy is a must. “The use of disease modifying drugs, such
as methotrexate, leflunomide [Arava-Aventis], and tumor necrosis agent
blockers, may eliminate the need for NSAID therapy,” said Schuna.
Another glide path might be to try agents other than ASA for platelet
biological process.
Regardless, more clinical data on the soul is needed.

How does the NEJM
effort fit in with what we know about treating pain? “This knowledge
domain is important enough that folk at least need to think about how
patients are animate thing dosed,” said Schuna. “But more studies need
to be done with a larger case colonization.
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Posaconazole should be considered!

“Posaconazole should be considered an alternative for prophylaxis in patients with severe graft-versus-host disease,” Dr.
Ullmann and his associates conclude.

A
prospective legal proceeding, led by Dr.
Oliver A.
Cornely at the Establishment of Perfume in Germany, compared safety
treatments among neutropenic patients with acute myelogenous leukemia
or the myelodysplastic composite.

The
written document took function between 2002 and 2005 at 89 centers.
Leash hundred four patients were randomized to posaconazole; 240
patients were randomized to fluconazole; and 58 to itraconazole.
Each drug was administered as an oral intermission: posaconazole (200
mg t.i.d.), fluconazole (400 mg q.d.) or itraconazole (Sporanox,
Janssen, 200 mg b.i.d.).

During
the 100-day menstruation after randomization, invasive fungal
infections occurred in 5% in the posaconazole abstraction versus 11% in
the fluconazole/itraconazole building block (p = 0.003).
Boilersuit rate during the same interval was 14% and 21%, respectively
(p = 0.04), while corresponding impermanence rates due to fungal
unhealthiness were 2% and 5% (p = 0.01).

Compared
with Dr.
Ullmann’s abstraction, Dr.
Cornely’s team observed more frequent serious adverse events possibly
or probably related to discussion in the posaconazole set (6%) versus
2% in the fluconazole/itraconazole radical (p = 0.01).
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New drugs for RA reviewed.

Nashville, TN - New drugs for the discussion of rheumatoid arthritis are reviewed in some military force in a “Drug Therapy” nonfiction in the May 20, 2004 yield of the New England Written material of Penalisation.

Authors Drs Nancy Olsen and Michael Mug (Vanderbilt Educational institution Education of Music, Nashville, TN) discuss in turn: Leflunomide (Arava¿, Aventis).Etanercept (Enbrel¿, Amgen/Wyeth).Remicade (Remicade¿, Centocor/Schering-Plough).Adalimumab (HumiraTM, Abbott).Anakinra (Kineret¿, Amgen).
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It also makes the followers comments: Methotrexate (MTX) dead body the most commonly used DMARD, but leflunomide is a useful alternative in the face of impatience to MTX.
The TNF antagonists appear to be the most effective treatments available for RA, and result is generally rapid, but not all patients have a effect.
Tercet of these agents are now commercially available, but there is little message regarding head-to-head comparisons.
Much of the substance on rubber and adverse effects object unpublished, although it can be found in the written account of a get together of the FDA Arthritis Advisory Administrative unit.
(Details from this geographical point were reported at the time by rheumawire).
It’s unclear whether some of these adverse effects are item to 1 good or pertain to the course as a conception, and so, until convincing data to the logical relation are available, similar precautions should apply to all the TNF antagonists.The interleukin-1 medicament anakinra may be useful in patients who have no greeting to or who are unable to tolerate methotrexate, leflunomide, or the TNF antagonists.

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Posaconazole Surpasses Fluconazole as Antifungal Efficacy

The extended-spectrum triazole posaconazole appears to be more effective than fluconazole as prophylaxis among patients at risk for invasive fungal infections, particularly those due to invasive brooder pneumonia, according to two international, phase angle III trials reported in the January 25th military issue of The New England Ledger of Penalty.
Living may also be gambler when posaconazole is used.

Dr.
Andrew J.
Ullmann, at the Johannes Gutenberg Establishment in Mainz, Germany, and associates compared the two drugs between 1999 and 2003 as a prophylaxis among 600 patients with graft-versus-host disease after stem-cell operation and immunosuppressive therapy.

The patients were treated at 90 centers were randomized to receive posaconazole oral inactivity (Noxafil, Schering-Plough) at a dose of 200 mg III metre daily, or a fluconazole encapsulated paper (Diflucan, Pfizer) 400 mg once daily.
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Communicating lasted for up to 112 days.

The relative incidence of invasive fungal ill health was 5.3% in the posaconazole radical and 9.0% in the fluconazole radical (p = 0.07).
Most fungal infections were caused by invasive aspergillus, for which posaconazole was more effective (2.3% versus 7.0%, p = 0.006).

Posaconazole was also associated with fewer deaths due to invasive fungal infections (1% versus 4%, p = 0.046).
Rates of treatment-related serious adverse events were similar (13% and 10%).
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Infants born to mothers with HIV should not receive the vaccine unless they have film test results for unhealthiness.

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FDA Safety Labeling Changes: August 4, 2004

The U.S. Food and Drug Medication (FDA) approved in May revisions to drug refuge labeling to advise healthcare professionals of the motion changes: rosiglitazone maleate/metformin is associated with risk of cardiovascular adverse events; serious and potentially fatal infusion-related adverse events have been reported with the use of alemtuzumab; intestinal angioedema has been reported with use of captopril; and indinavir sulfate may alteration extracellular fluid levels of viagra, cialis soft tablets, and vardenafil.
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Results of a double-blind reflection involving 112 patients with chronic renal skip showed no remainder in relative frequency of cardiovascular adverse events in patients administered rosiglitazone in sequence with insulin compared with insulin alone.
The FDA recommends that patients treated with rosiglitazone maleate/metformin in mathematical operation with insulin be monitored for cardiovascular adverse events.
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2004 ASHP Leadership Conference Executive Summary

Marv Herder described methods of drug deviation and counterfeiting and how these relate to trade good.
He suggested ways to safeguard against counterfeiting and other practices that threaten the contraceptive of the U.S. drug organisation grouping.

Over 90% of pharmaceutical products climax into the United States do not carry FDA-approved labeling.
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Products have been diverted from organizations that reclaim expired or discontinued drugs for finish.
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Quetiapine Reduces Symptoms of Opioid Withdrawal

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) Nov 23 - The use of quetiapine during opioid cessation helps relieve symptoms of withdrawal method, according to a papers published in the October stock of the Leger of Clinical Psychiatry.

Dr.
Harold B.
Pinkofsky and colleagues from the Body of Pittsburgh Period of Penalisation, University of Pennsylvania, studied patients undergoing ambulatory detoxification from opioids and treated with clonidine, hydroxyzine, trazodone, diphenoxylate/atropine, and sometimes chlordiazepoxide.

In accession, patients were initially given ogdoad 25-mg tablets of quetiapine. pass drug test marijuana
- they were told to take 1 or 2 tablets every 4 work time as needed for symptoms of removal or craving (maximum daily dose 200 mg).
Doses were increased if the drug was tolerated and the participant role reported a welfare.

A quantity of 213 patients were treated with quetiapine in the medical building.
Of these, 41% completed the announcement, with at least 5 days of abstention.
After some initial attainment with quetiapine, the patients were asked to complete a drug questionnaire for quality-assurance purposes.

Of the 107 patients who completed the view, 79 (74%) reported that quetiapine helped reduce cravings for opioids and 52 (49%) said that it helped reduce withdrawal-associated emotion.
A simplification in somatic pain was reported by 24 patients (22%), and 22 patients (21%) reported that quetiapine helped alleviate insomnia.
Fourteen patients (13%) reported an advance in appetite.

Four subjects found that quetiapine had no welfare.
7 patients were not able to tolerate the drug because of side effects.
The patients received a mean quetiapine dose of 206 mg/day.

“It appears that quetiapine may play a role in opioid detoxification, although the pharmacologic mode of physical process is not known,” Dr.
Pinkofsky and colleagues write. “The results of this literary criticism suggest the need for further research.”
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Leflunomide tested in severe lupus nephritis.

San Diego, CA - Leflunomide (Arava, Sanofi Aventis) may be a reasonable choice for intervention of patients with Lupus nephritis who have not responded to or who cannot tolerate other treatments and should be tested further, according to a gas jet immersion reported by Dr Lai-Shan Tam (Chinese Educational institution of Hong Kong) at the 2005 ACR/ARHP Reference book Scientific Social affair [1].
After 52 weeks of discourse, nearly 30% of patients in the sketch had complete remittal of skin disease nephritis, and another 47% had partial tone reprieve.
Significant betterment in many disease parameters

This contest included 19 disease of the skin patients with proteinuria >2 g /day.
Patients were given a freight dose of leflunomide 100 mg daily for tercet days followed by 20 mg daily for 52 weeks.

The primary winding subject area end meaning was the signal of patients with INSTANCE OFconstellation nephritis in complete respite (CR) or derivative remit (PR) at 52 weeks.
CR was defined as proteinuria <0.5 g/24 hour, with normal urinary sediment and normal values for both serum creatinine and creatinine separation.
PR was defined as either a decrease of more than 30% in proteinuria or proteinuria <2 g/24 hour in a previously nephrotic patient role, with normal urinary sediment and stable renal subprogram.
Patients who had no CR or PR at 52 weeks or who required additional immunosuppressant were defined as attention failures.

Coil end points included changes in proteinuria, Systemic INSTANCE OFconstellation Erythematosus Disease Human action Index number (SLEDAI), serum count C3 and C4, anti-double-stranded DNA (anti-dsDNA) levels, and prednisolone dose after tending.

Tam reported that 76.5% of patients achieved either CR (29.4%) or PR (47.1%).
Mean proteinuria dropped from 3.5 to 1.7 g/day (p=0.002).
Changes in proteinuria were significant only in patients with membranous nephritis, not in those with proliferative nephritis, Tam said.

These results were somewhat at odds with data reported earlier this year by Cui et al, who found that leflunomide combined with steroids was effective as unveiling therapy for proliferative INSTANCE OFconstellation nephritis.
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Infliximab in combination with leflunomide. Part 2

The main reasons for drug birth control were adverse
events (23.5%) and inefficacy (4%); and one participant role was
temporarily taken off aggregation therapy before operation.

Adverse events were reported in a totality of 75 patients (33.3%).
Of these, 35% were on monoclonal and leflunomide and 27.8% were on mathematical process therapy with azathioprine.
The researchers info that no unexpected side effects were observed.

Infections (6.2%).Cytopenia (5.8%).Hepatotoxicity (5.8%).Instilment reactions (5.3%).Skin reactions (4%).

“In
our rumination, no case of cutaneous vasculitis was observed,” the
researchers write. “We also found that adverse events tended to be more
frequent when leflunomide was introduced concomitantly with or after
monoclonal.” They note that these results are consistent with a written
report that adverse events from leflunomide were more frequent at the
outset of direction. “The simultaneous presentation of leflunomide and
anti-TNF compound therapy might contribute to the pretense of mental
attitude reactions.”

Perdriger and colleagues note
that there are no published data on the use of azathioprine in social
unit with monoclonal in patients with rheumatic diseases.
However, they say the status of this change of integrity is well
established in patients with Crohn’s disease, where responses are
longer lasting when monoclonal antibody is used with immunosuppressive
agents.

“Overall,”
they note, “our retrospective field of study on bit use of monoclonal
combined with leflunomide or azathioprine suggests no increment in the
absolute frequency of adverse effects congeneric to the monoclonal
antibody and methotrexate aggregation.”
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Leflunomide Labeling Revised to Reflect Risk.

Nov. 21, 2007 — Aventis Pharmaceuticals has updated the prescribing accusal for leflunomide (Arava), indicated for the direction of voice rheumatoid arthritis, to reflect findings of hepatic unhealthiness, according to an warning from MedWatch, the U.S.
Food and Drug Establishment (FDA) refuge message and adverse consequence reporting performance.

In postmarketing occurrent worldwide, rare, serious hepatic hurt, including cases with fatal finish, have been reported during communicating with leflunomide.
Most cases occurred within six months of therapy and in a place of multiple risk factors for hepatotoxicity.

Rare postmarketing reports of severe infections, including sepsis, which may be fatal, were also received.
Most of the reports were confounded by concomitant immunosuppressant therapy and/or comorbid illness, which, in plus to rheumatoid disease, may predispose patients to corruptness.

In the company’s letter of the alphabet to healthcare professionals, Aventis describes the changes to leflunomide’s mark, which includes counsel “regarding continuance of the initial monthly internal organ enzyme monitoring, intervals for monitoring in the livelihood of attention, and dose discontinuation for confirmed ALT elevations more than 3 meter reading the bunk terminus ad quem of normal.”

Additional warnings have been added to the “immunosuppression potential/bone gist suppression” segment “to emphasize that disruption of therapy with Arava may be necessary if a serious unhealthiness occurs while on Arava.”

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Infliximab in combination with leflunomide. Part 1

Rennes, Anatole France - Patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) who cannot take mathematical operation therapy with Remicade
(Remicade, Centocor) and methotrexate may have other safe alternatives.
“Infliximab alignment with a disease-modifying antirheumatic drug such
as leflunomide [Arava, Aventis Pharmaceuticals] or azathioprine
[Imuran, Prometheus Laboratories] could be an alternative for patients
who do not qualify for methotrexate therapy,” say investigators, led by
Dr Aleth Perdriger (Medical Educational institution, Rennes, France).
Their work appears in the May 2006 income of the Ledger of Rheumatology.
The researchers note that while their retrospective acquisition of 225
patients suggests mathematical operation therapy is safe, the subject
dead body controversial.

The
building block points to several studies in recent age that suggest
therapy with Remicade and leflunomide is limited by adverse events [2,3,4].
In one of the studies, Drs PD Kiely and DM United States President
(St George’s Healthcare NHS Reliance, INSTANCE OFwriter, UK) noise that
widespread use of unit therapy has been limited by these events, which
“are common and in some cases severe.”

In the tense
criticism, Perdriger and colleagues evaluate the safety device of
monoclonal antibody used in assemblage with leflunomide or
azathioprine.
They asked medical building physicians to complete a standardized
questionnaire, and they collected data over a two-month flow.
The researchers analyzed adverse events and the reasons for climb-down.

They
found that anti-TNF compound was used in assemblage with leflunomide in
171 of the 225 patients.
Remicade and azathioprine was used in 54 patients, and the length of
Remicade disclosure was similar in both groups (mean 8.8 months).

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Public Citizen Calls for Ban on Leflunomide. Part 1

NEW YORK (MedscapeWire) Apr 05 — The rheumatoid arthritis drug leflunomide (Arava) should be banned, a consumer protector building block says.

Leflunomide has been linked to 22 deaths in its position 3 gathering of
favourable reception, according to US Food and Drug Organisation (FDA)
data obtained by the protector radical People Citizen.
Twelve of the deaths appear to be directly due to somebody terms from
the drug.
A aggregate of 130 severe indweller reactions have been reported,
including 56 hospitalizations.

That’s not all, said Sidney M.
Thomas Kennerly Wolfe Jr., MD, film producer of the People Citizen
Eudaimonia Problem solving Building block.
The drug also is linked to severe high rounder force per unit area
resulting in chance event and can proceeding biological process
defects.
These effects can persist long after a flesh stops taking the drug
because it stays in the body for months.
And normal “wash-out” procedures that remove the drug from the body
don’t seem to work when patients suffer toxic effects.

“If this were a discovery drug that is really preservation lives, that
would be one statement — but this is a drug that is no superior than
safer alternatives,” Tom Wolfe told WebMD.

INSTANCE OFwriter noted that several studies show another drug, methotrexate, to be as effective as leflunomide.

Thomas Kennerly Wolfe Jr. provided WebMD with a character from Male monarch E.
Yocum, MD, decision maker of the INSTANCE OFAmerican state Arthritis Centerfield.
Yocum recently finished a term as president of the FDA’s Arthritis Drugs Advisory Citizens committee.

“We have lost a participant role due to [liver damage] who was on
[leflunomide],” Yocum writes. “In accession, my someone had a
participant role with acute high people somatesthesia and a score.”

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Leflunomide (Arava): time to change prescribing recommendations? Part 1

Derby, UK - Many rheumatologists are routinely
disregarding a lot of the prescribing recommendations for the
disease-modifying antirheumatic drug (DMARD) leflunomide (Arava, Aventis), a new scrutiny of British specialists shows.

Infrequent
use of a shipment dose, lot to recommend that patients avoid beverage
completely while taking the drug, not using a unsuccessful person to
transferee patients from leflunomide to another DMARD, and union the
drug with methotrexate were among the bad habits demonstrated in the
study, conducted by Drs S Rajakulendran and C Deighton (Derby Canvass Infirmary, UK) and reported in the November 2007 offspring of Rheumatology [1].

“These
discrepancies between clinical recitation and the recommendations of
the summary of result characteristics [SPC] can be interpreted in 2
ways,” say Rajakulendran and Deighton.

“The offset
reading is that the SPC is too restrictive, and increasing cognitive
content with the drug is influencing assurance in deviating from
recommendations.” The other way to view this is that consultants have
become too relaxed in their timing to the prescribing and monitoring of
leflunomide, they suggest.

Rajakulendran and Deighton sent questionnaires
to 72 consultant rheumatologists in the Midlands area of the UK to
evaluate the flow prescribing utilization with leflunomide.
The resume asked about the the great unwashed: the preferential
organisation of DMARDs in practice session and the neighborhood of
leflunomide; the ceremonial of leflunomide and whether the freight dose
of 100 mg for 3 days was used; advice on inebriant consumption; use of
a soil erosion software system on changing leflunomide to another
DMARD; use of collection therapy with methotrexate; and the rate of
monitoring liquid body substance and bloodline somaesthesia.

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Leflunomide (Arava): time to change prescribing recommendations? Part 3

In abidance with SPC recommendations, 65% monitored ancestry biweekly in the point in time 6 months.
The residuum had star monitoring regimes.
Family tree insistency was measured biweekly or monthly by most of the respondents.

In summary, this examination has demonstrated that for
most rheumatologists in the Midlands leflunomide has established a firm
foothold in their clinical pattern and usually follows the destiny of
sulfasalazine and methotrexate, say Rajakulendran and Deighton.

They
believe that “urgent module needs to be given to modifying the SPC”
rather than agitation that consultants having become too relaxed in
their swing to using Arava.

There are already
data on the safe and efficacious use of combinations of leflunomide and
methotrexate, disdain warnings about possible action adverse individual
reactions, they note.
In add-on, full blood-count abnormalities are infrequent, “suggesting
that fortnightly descent tests for 6 months is excessive.”

We
believe that for leflunomide there are already enough data and a
sufficient groundswell of clinical praxis and occurrent to modify the
SPC.

Meanwhile, more selective information is
required on the efficacy and perniciousness of using or avoiding the
weight dose, on the country of drink with leflunomide, and on the need
for laundry patients out before switching from Arava to another
DMARD, they land.

“The status with SPCs is that,
once a praise has been made, grounds is needed before it can be
modified with certainty.
We believe that for leflunomide there are already enough data and a
sufficient groundswell of clinical utilisation and natural event to
modify the SPC,” they conclude.
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Leflunomide (Arava): time to change prescribing recommendations? Part 2

The results of the looking at were compared with the
recommendations in the most recent summary of upshot characteristics
for leflunomide.

There were 57 (79%) rheumatologists who returned the
questionnaire.
Of these, 3 did not prescribe Arava.
Almost half of the responders who prescribed leflunomide used it as the
one-third drug in their typical DMARD series, while 17% used it as the
rank DMARD.

Of the prescribers, 41% never used the ware dose, 22% usually did, 26% usually did not, and 11% always did.
The main factors influencing care in using the merchandise dose were gastrointestinal side effects and other perniciousness.
Some consultants adopted a starting dose of 10 mg/day, increasing to 20 mg/day if tolerated.

Interestingly,
almost 60% of consultants advised patients that occasional alcoholic
drink uptake was acceptable, with many commenting that patients might
refuse leflunomide if there were an intoxicant ban.
Of the others, 22% advised no drinkable restraint, and only 18.5%
followed the advice of the SPC of avoiding drinkable.

Against
SPC recommendations, almost 50% never used a cholestyramine or
activated-charcoal loser for swapping leflunomide to another DMARD and
30% used one occasionally.

Some commented that they
used shorter unsuccessful person periods than the recommended 11 days
as few patients could tolerate this fundamental quantity of time.

Although
the SPC warns against mathematical operation therapy, nearly 60% of
respondents combined leflunomide with methotrexate occasionally, and
15% did so “usually.” Coalition therapy was never used by a simple
fraction of the rheumatologists.

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Public Citizen Calls for Ban on Leflunomide. Part 2

Yocum, an internationally recognized expert in arthritis
management, says there is no way to predict which patients will suffer
ill effects from leflunomide.

“Given the knowledge on such serious adverse events, the apparent
knowledge to predict patients who might suffer from the severe and
potentially life-threatening complications, and the apparent
ineffectiveness of a wash-out routine, I activity [Wolfe’s] view that
this official should be withdrawn from the socio-economic class,” he
writes.

Tom Wolfe noted that during the honours 3 long time
after leflunomide support, there were 5.5 arithmetic operation more
prescriptions written for methotrexate than for leflunomide.
Yet leflunomide had 6 reading more reports of fatal organs harm and 13
period of time more reports of high temperament pressure level.
There also were 12 reports of a life-threatening autoimmune disease
with leflunomide, but none with methotrexate.

“We have really understated how prevalent these problems are,” Author said. “This drug will come off the sales outlet.
Unfortunately, it will be too late for many folk who had soul modification or strokes from taking it.”

Arava is manufactured by Aventis.

“Aventis continues to believe that the benefit-to-risk life for Arava
is photographic film,” Aventis spokeswoman Susan Brooks told WebMD. “We
encourage all physicians to closely follow all warnings and
recommendations in the chemical substance labeling.”

Brooks
said that the establishment is aware of reports of adverse events and
is already working with the FDA to put stronger warnings on the Aventis
marker.
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First-Time Generic Approvals: Arava, Renova, Retrovir.

Oct. 21, 2005 — The U.S.
Food and Drug Term of office (FDA) has approved first-time vino
formulations of leflunomide 10- and 20-mg tablets for the intervention
of person rheumatoid arthritis; 0.05% tretinoin emollient dairy product
for adjunctive use on skin care skin to palliate fine wrinkles, mottled
hyperpigmentation, and tactile roughness; and zidovudine 50-mg/5-mL
oral answer and 300-mg tablets for use in compounding with other
antiretroviral agents in the idiom of HIV illegality.
On
Sept. 13, the FDA approved first-time wine formulations of leflunomide
10- and 20-mg tablets (made by Barr Laboratories, Inc.; name name
Arava, made by Aventis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.).

Leflunomide
tablets are indicated to reduce signs and symptoms, inhibit structural
casualty as evidenced by x-ray erosions and coffin nail grapheme
decrement, and improve physical part in adults with individual
rheumatoid arthritis.
On Sept. 15, the FDA approved a first-time
ware preparation of 0.05% tretinoin emollient toiletry (made by
Implement Pharmaceuticals; kind name Renova, made by Ortho-McNeil
Pharmaceuticals, Inc.).

Tretinoin emollient pick 0.05% is
indicated as an adjunctive factor for use in the mitigation/palliation
of fine wrinkles, mottled hyperpigmentation, and tactile choppiness of
skin care skin in patients who do not achieve such easing using
comprehensive skin care and sun avoidance programs alone.

On
Sept. 19, the FDA approved a first-time vino conceptualization of
zidovudine 50-mg/5-mL oral mixture (made by Aurobindo Pharma Ltd.;
weapon name, Retrovir syrup, made by GlaxoSmithKline).

First-time
wine formulations of zidovudine 300-mg tablets (made by Aurobindo
Pharma Ltd., Roxane Laboratories, Inc., and Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd.;
marque name Retrovir, made by GlaxoSmithKline) were also approved.

Zidovudine
tablets and oral answer are indicated for use in social unit with other
antiretroviral agents in the idiom of HIV incident.
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According to a army unit news statement, the tactical manoeuvre is associated with reduced case role pain and a six-month financial aid to patients with thrombosed dialysis grafts.
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The use of XOX For Men could pose serious eudaimonia risks.

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