Patients in Test Won't Get Drug, Amgen Decides
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A group of people with Parkinson's disease that had taken a drug as part of a trial pleaded with Amgen to allow them to resume taking it, but the company said no.
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MONDAY, Sept. 13 (HealthDayNews) -- Many Americans are not taking all their medicines because they can't afford them, and most aren't telling their doctors about it, new research shows.
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Terminally ill patients have no constitutional right to gain access to experimental drugs that have yet to win federal approval, the US Supreme Court ruled Monday.
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Unless it receives new evidence, the Medicare agency will not reverse its decision to cut reimbursements for best-selling anemia drugs such as Amgen Inc.'s Aranesp.
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The US Food and Drug Administration cleared the first DNA microarray test for use by physicians in making treatment decisions based on a patient&#39;s genes.
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Doctors are missing key information they need to make decisions for cancer patients because some drug companies are not publishing clinical trials.
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Federal regulators said yesterday that they won&#39;t approve La Jolla Pharmaceutical&#39;s experimental lupus drug without an additional human study to prove its benefits.
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A group of seven on of the worldâs largest pharmaceutical companies hopes to develop genetic tests to determine which patients would be at risk of drug side effects.
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The federal government has told New York State that chemotherapy, which had been covered for illegal immigrants under a Medicaid provision, does not qualify for coverage.
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GlaxoSmithKline PLC revealed Thursday that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has declined to grant a priority review to its experimental cancer vaccine Cervarix, adding to pressure on the drug maker after controversy surrounding its diabetes drug Avandia.
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Allen County health care providers will not receive thousands of expected doses of flu vaccine this year, after almost half of the countryâs orders were canceled Tuesday.
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Patients losing their sight say they are being denied access to a drug which could stop them from going blind.
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The legal outcome could help protect Amgenâs multibillion dollar anemia drug franchise in the U.S. by blocking Rocheâs plan to introduce a competing medicine.
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GAITHERSBURG, Md. - Amgen Inc. and Johnson &amp; Johnson's anemia drugs don't need changes in recommended doses to protect the safety of kidney patients, US advisers said.
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Anemia drugs sold by Amgen Inc. and Johnson & Johnson will carry a new boxed warning advising doctors to choose the lowest dose needed to avoid blood transfusions, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Friday.
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American biotechnology firm Amgen yesterday lost its right to produce a billion-dollar anaemia drug, Epogen, exclusively in the UK after a House of Lords ruling.
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Cancer doctors seek to loosen federal restrictions on anemia drugs that carry potentially deadly side effects, saying the tight payment guidelines for treatments made by Amgen and Johnson and Johnson are ultimately bad for patients.