FDA approves Roche's low dose Tamiflu for children
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Swiss drugmaker Roche Holding Ag said on Monday that U.S. health regulators approved its Tamiflu influenza treatment at two lower doses for children in a form with a longer shelf life that could be an advantage for use in stockpiling against a flu pandemic.
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Children as young as 2 can be given a nasal spray flu vaccine, a federal advisory panel said Wednesday.
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The Food and Drug Administration approved the use of the drug Risperdal for treating schizophrenia and bipolar disorder in children and teenagers.
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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the Eli Lilly drug Alimta, for the treatment of advanced non-small cell lung cancer in previously treated patients.
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GlaxoSmithKline Plc's FluLaval vaccine won U.S. approval for preventing influenza, the Food and Drug Administration said on Thursday.
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(letrozole) is the first therapy approved by theU.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the extended adjuvant treatmentof postmenopausal women with early breast cancer who have received adjuvant(post-surgery) tamoxifen therapy for five years
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J&J gains pediatric approval of its antipsychosic drug.
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Roche Holding, the world&#39;s biggest maker of diagnostic tests, has received Food and Drug Administration approval to market the first laboratory gene test that can help doctors reduce the risk of side effects for certain medications.
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STOCKHOLM/ZURICH  - Some seasonal influenza viruses are resistant to Roche Holding AG's Tamiflu, a study showed, but Roche said no doubts had been raised about the drug's power to combat any deadly bird flu pandemic.
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US regulators said Tuesday they approved a new cancer drug from Genzyme Corp. for treating a type of childhood leukemia. The Food and Drug Administration, in a statement on its
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Swiss pharmaceutical giant Roche Holding AG said Friday that the European Union's executive body had approved its cancer drug Avastin.
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By Tricia Bishop, The Baltimore Sun  Sep. 14--Maryland will offer 250,000 free doses of FluMist to elementary school kids ages 5 through 11 this year, giving a public relations boost to MedImmune Inc., which makes the needle-free vaccine, as well as helping parents of shot-wary children.
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MedImmune has cleared a significant hurdle to revive its long-troubled nasal flu vaccine, announcing yesterday that the Food and Drug Administration had approved FluMist for children 2 to 5 years old.
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Pfizer Inc. won U.S. approval on Friday to promote its Celebrex pain reliever for treating children age two and older who have rheumatoid arthritis, the Food and Drug Administration said on Friday.
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A new study finds that close to 80 percent of children in U.S. hospitals are receiving drugs that have been approved only for grownups. The growing problem of âoff labelâ prescriptions.
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WASHINGTON - A second Food and Drug Adminis- tration advisory committee agreed that healthy children as young as 9 could be given the stimulant dextroamphetamine in an experiment, concurring with an ethics panel&#39;s recommendation last week.
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WEDNESDAY, Aug. 22 (HealthDay News) -- The powerful anti-psychotic drug Risperdal was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday for use in children and adolescents who have schizophrenia or bipolar disorder.