The FDA has granted Orphan Drug designation to avatrombopag for the potential treatment of chemotherapy-induced thrombocytopenia, a complication that may lead to chemotherapy dose delays and regimen changes.
Caroline O. Pardo, Ph.D., General Manager for Haymarket Medical Education, is pleased to announce that HME, based in Paramus, NJ, has been accredited as a provider of interprofessional continuing education by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education, the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education, and the American Nursing Credentialing Center.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Ruxience (rituximab-pvvr; Pfizer), a biosimilar to Rituxan (Genentech and Biogen), for the treatment of adult patients with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, chronic lymphocytic leukemia, and granulomatosis with polyangitis and microscopic polyangiitis. The approval was based on a comprehensive data package which included results from the REFLECTIONS B3281006 study in…
Results of the study showed that the rate of symptomatic recurrent VTE – the primary end point – was similar in both treatment groups with 1.2% of patients experiencing a recurrent event in the rivaroxaban group compared with 3.0% in the standard anticoagulation group.
The FDA has approved Venclexta in combination with Gazyva for the treatment of patients with previously untreated chronic lymphocytic leukemia or small lymphocytic lymphoma.
The FDA has expanded the indication for Tibsovo to include treatment of newly diagnosed acute myeloid leukemia with a susceptible isocitrate dehydrogenase-1 (IDH1) mutation as detected by an FDA-approved test in adult patients who are ≥75 years old or who have comorbidities that preclude use of intensive induction chemotherapy.
From May 1 2018 to July 31 2018, 5 cases of death associated with DS in patients taking Idhifa have been reported; in 2 of these cases, DS was listed as the only cause of death.
Doptelet is a thrombopoietin receptor agonist (TPO-RA) that was approved in May 2018 to treat thrombocytopenia in adults with chronic liver disease who are scheduled to undergo a procedure.
PRN1008 is an oral, reversible covalent Bruton’s tyrosine kinase (BTK) inhibitor; BTK is present in the signaling pathways of most types of white blood cells except for T cells and plasma cells.
Since brodifacoum – a long-acting vitamin K-dependent antagonist, used as a rodenticide – was detected in drug and biologic samples from patients using synthetic cannabinoids, there have been 202 reported cases of coagulopathy in 9 states (mostly Illinois; N=164)
