Archive for April 21st, 2008
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Heparin
According to an April 21 AP article, the FDA issued a warning Monday to Changzhou SPL, the company that manufactures the blood-thinning drug Heparin. The FDA informed the pharmaceutical manufacturing company that it is not doing an adequate job of removing impurities from the raw materials it uses. However, the company maintains that it does ...
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New Kids On The Block
I decided to do some research and find out the names of some of the latest drugs to arrive on the scene in so far this month. Here’s what I discovered (courtesy of Drugs.com): Treximet, formerly Trexima, is sumatriptan succinate and naproxen sodium. It is being developed as a novel combination of sumatriptan succinate and ...