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[54] [55] The $875 million settlement broke down to $290 million for violating the Prescription Drug Marketing Act, $559.5 million to settle federal fraud charges for overcharging Medicare, and $25.5 million reimbursement to 50 states and Washington, D.C., for filing false claims with the states' Medicaid programs. [55]
A gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonist (GnRH agonist) is a type of medication which affects gonadotropins and sex hormones. [1] They are used for a variety of indications including in fertility medicine and to lower sex hormone levels in the treatment of hormone-sensitive cancers such as prostate cancer and breast cancer, certain gynecological disorders like heavy periods and endometriosis ...
[3] [4] It is a decapeptide (pGlu-His-Trp-Ser-Tyr- D -Trp-Leu-Arg-Pro-Gly-NH 2 ) and a gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonist (GnRH agonist) used as the acetate or pamoate salts . Primary indications include endometriosis , [ 5 ] for the reduction of uterine fibroids , to treat prostate cancer , and to treat male hypersexuality with severe ...
Bicalutamide, sold under the brand name Casodex among others, is an antiandrogen medication that is primarily used to treat prostate cancer. [10] It is typically used together with a gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) analogue or surgical removal of the testicles to treat metastatic prostate cancer (mPC).
Participants were mainly white (66%), male (78%), middle aged (median 63.8 +/- 11 years) with NYHA stage II (71.6%) or stage III (23.1%) heart failure. [ 46 ] The trial was stopped early after a prespecified interim analysis revealed a reduction in the primary endpoint of cardiovascular death or heart failure in the sacubitril/valsartan group ...
Cetrorelix (INN Tooltip International Nonproprietary Name, BAN Tooltip British Approved Name), or cetrorelix acetate (USAN Tooltip United States Adopted Name, JAN Tooltip Japanese Accepted Name), sold under the brand name Cetrotide, is an injectable gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) antagonist.
An equianalgesic chart is a conversion chart that lists equivalent doses of analgesics (drugs used to relieve pain). Equianalgesic charts are used for calculation of an equivalent dose (a dose which would offer an equal amount of analgesia) between different analgesics. [1]
On 14 January 2016, the European Commission, [11] and on 18 February 2016, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) [23] approved brivaracetam under the trade name Briviact. The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) issued an interim final rule [ clarification needed ] placing brivaracetam into schedule V of the Controlled Substances Act ...