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...

PDUFA V: Risk – Benefit Emphasis New

What is new about PDUFA V?   Congress, the media, and the public have a history of boiling down the issue to whether drugs are safe or not safe. what does ivermectin treat in cattle   In reality the issue is benefit versus risk. ivermectin is effective    In addition,...

New Hypersensitivity Screen for Drugs

Many drug hypersensitivity reactions are HLA-linked, meaning that they will occur much more often or even exclusively in individuals who have certain variants of the HLA gene. العاب بوكر اون لاين   A new study elucidates the specific mechanism leading to HLA...

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 Cardiotoxicity Testing: Stem Cell Use

Prospective identification and potential amelioration of cardiotoxicity is a critical component of contemporary drug development, particularly for targeted therapies (e.g., tyrosine kinases) in oncology that are designed to inhibit critical signaling pathways shared...