Off-label Drug Use: Fact vs. Fiction

The authors – CM Wittich, CM Burkle, and WL Lanier – offer a concise review of the topic of off-label drug use including its definition, prevalence, and implications for drug safety. ربح مال حقيقي من النت    The article format addresses 10 common questions...

FDA Uses Linguamatics to Increase Drug Safety

Linguamatics, the leader in natural language processing (NLP)-based text mining, announced that the Federal Drug Administration’s (FDA) Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) has licensed its 12E text mining platform as a discovery and decision support...

FDA Pharamacogenomic Biomarker Database

Pharmacogenomics can play an important role in identifying responders and non-responders to medications, avoiding adverse events, and optimizing drug dose. Drug labels may contain information on genomic biomarkers and can describe: Drug exposure and clinical response...

Drug Safety: Tip of the Iceberg

The 10 drugs with the largest numbers of reports sent directly to the FDA by healthcare practitioners and consumers in 2011 in order of frequency are Pradaxa, Coumadin, Levaquin, Carboplatin, Zestril, Cisplatin, Zocor, Cymbalta, Cipro and Bactrim.  It is interesting...

Nonclinical Toxicology: FDA Guidance Agenda for 2012

The Federal Drug Administration (FDA) Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) has issued a list of planned draft and final guidance documents for release in 2012. لعبة الكازينو   There are about 50 such guidances planned.  Below are a few select highlights...