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Brentuximab vedotin is an antibody-drug conjugate approved to treat anaplastic large cell lymphoma (ALCL) and Hodgkin lymphoma. The drug was approved in August by FDA.
Antibody drug conjugate consists of an antibody linked to a payload drug. This kind of mechanism helps to deliver the drug to targeted cells like cancer cells.
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a warning about the lymphoma drug brentuximab (Adcetris, Seattle Genetics).
This warning comes after two new cases of progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy a rare but serious brain infection.
A new Boxed Warning highlighting this risk has been added to the drug label.
In addition, a new Contraindication warning was added against use of Adcetris with the cancer drug bleomycin due to increased risk of lung toxicity.
Brentuximab was approved by the FDA in August 2011 for the treatment of Hodgkin’s lymphoma and systemic anaplastic large cell lymphoma.
Healthcare professionals should suspend brentuximab dosing if PML is suspected, and discontinue the drug therapy if a diagnosis of PML is confirmed, according to the FDA.
Source: FDA site
iHealth Labs has announced the iHealth Smart GlucoMeter, a blood glucose system that can be connected to with dongle to iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch with an attached dongle.
Almost similar to Sanofi/AgaMatrix’s iBGStar, it consists of a test strip reader that gets attached the devices mentioned above and the process of glucose testing can be carried with standard strips.
There is also an application along with which can store the data and create charts up of previous 30 days.
All the announced products will also use iHealth’s iHealth Cloud Service to instantly and securely back-up and store their results in the cloud.
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