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Accelerated approval of anticancer drugs: a safe choice?

All oncologists know how anxiously cancer patients look forward to the availability in clinical practice of drugs that have yielded positive results in the registration trials.

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Levothyroxine and dizziness
In the form of questions and answers the topic of vertigo in hypothyroid subjects is discussed, with particular reference to the possibility that it is an adverse drug reaction. Or maybe not?Can the appearance of vertigo in a patient undergoing therapy with levothyroxine be an adverse event due to...
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Drugs & Children
Intravenous immunoglobulins in pediatrics: immediate and delayed adverse events
Intravenous administration of immunoglobulins in pediatrics is used for an increasing number of indications. First of all, primary and secondary immunodeficiencies, but also and more and more frequently, inflammatory and autoimmune diseases such as Kawasaki disease, idiopathic thrombocytopenic...
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From regulatory agencies

28 October 2021 CADTH
élexacaftor/tézacaftor/ivacaftor et ivacaftor
28 October 2021 CADTH
aducanumab
28 October 2021 CADTH
Oxytocin Administration for Labour Induction and Augmentation
28 October 2021 CADTH
Sound Masking Devices for Tinnitus in People Without Hearing Loss
28 October 2021 CADTH
Single-Use Negative Pressure Wound Therapy for Chronic Wounds
27 October 2021 CADTH
phénylbutyrate de sodium et ursodoxicoltaurine
27 October 2021 FDA
artnaturals® Issues Voluntary Recall of Limited Batches of 8oz Bottles of Scent Free Hand Sanitizer Due to Presence of Impurities
27 October 2021 FDA
Windstone Medical Packaging dba Aligned Medical Solutions Issues Nationwide Recall of Cardinal Health’s Monoject™ Flush Prefilled Saline Syringes Placed Into the Following Kits; AMS-9041CP Leaderflex Insertion Kit With Ultrasound, AMS-9046CP-1 Insertion T
25 October 2021 CADTH
L’incidence de la participation des patients
22 October 2021 CADTH
Pembrolizumab for Microsatellite Instability-High or Mismatch Repair Deficient Small Bowel Adenocarcinoma or Appendiceal Adenocarcinoma
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