Fukuizumi A, Miyanaga A, Seike M, Kato Y, Nakamichi S, Chubachi K, Matsumoto M, Noro R, Minegishi Y, Kunugi S, Kubota K, Gemma A BMC Res Notes 2015;8:165 PMID: 25899913 Abstract BACKGROUND: Non-small-cell lung cancers (NSCLCs) harboring translocations in anaplastic …

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February 14, 2016 – Diabetic ketoacidosis is a serious complication of diabetes caused by low insulin levels. Rare cases of this condition, including life-threatening ones, have occurred in patients taking SGLT2 inhibitors for type 2 diabetes and a number of these cases have …

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January 21, 2016 –  This is a never ending story. The present notification by the The American Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is once more to inform the public of a growing trend of dietary supplements or conventional foods with hidden …

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December 5, 2015 – A safety review by the American Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has resulted in the addition of specific warnings to the drug labels of a specific class of type 2 diabetes medicines called sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 (SGLT2) inhibitors …

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August 29, 2015 – This may after all not be so good news for Type 2-Diabetes patients on DPP-4 inhibitor medications. The American Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is warning that the type 2 diabetes medicines containing the pharmacologically active …

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August 06, 1015 – The American Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has just issued a warning that a case of definite progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML) and a case of probable PML have been reported in patients taking Fingolimod (Gilenya) for …

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May 15, 2015 – The American Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is warning that the type 2 diabetes medicines Canagliflozin (Invokana), Dapagliflozin (Farxiga), and Empagliflozin (Jardiance) may lead to ketoacidosis, a serious condition where the body produces high levels of …

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April 11, 2015 – Dutch clinicians report what they believe is the first case of progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML) after treatment with compounded dimethyl fumarate (DMF) in a patient without severe lymphocytopenia. This situation was “previously thought to be unlikely,” Dennis …

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April 4, 2015 – There’s nothing like the real world to shed light on the safety of new drugs and devices. Clinical trials may be the best way to compare treatments, but patients enrolled in trials are carefully selected and …

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March 22, 2015 – This post addresses a topic which often gets lost in the current hype on targeted and precision (theragenomic) medicine. The issue is that targeted therapies are not only very precise and highly effective (in most patients) …

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