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Bevacizumab, sold under the brand name Avastin among others, is a monoclonal antibody medication used to treat a number of types of cancers and a specific eye disease. [30] [28] For cancer, it is given by slow injection into a vein (intravenous) and used for colon cancer, lung cancer, ovarian cancer, glioblastoma, hepatocellular carcinoma, and renal-cell carcinoma. [31]
Verteporfin (trade name Visudyne), a benzoporphyrin derivative, is a medication used as a photosensitizer for photodynamic therapy to eliminate the abnormal blood vessels in the eye associated with conditions such as the wet form of macular degeneration.
Bevacizumab has been shown to be the drug most likely to cause bleeding complications. [ citation needed ] While the mechanisms of bleeding induced by anti-VEGF agents are complicated and not yet totally understood, the most accepted hypothesis is that VEGF could promote endothelial cell survival and integrity in the adult vasculature and its ...
Table of Contents PART I Item 1. BUSINESS General Johnson & Johnson and its subsidiaries have approxi mately 115,500 employees worldwide engaged in the research and development, manufacture and sale of a broad range of products in the health care field.
A package insert from 1970, with Ovrette brand contraception pills. A package insert is a document included in the package of a medication that provides information about that drug and its use. For prescription medications, the insert is technical, providing information for medical professionals about how to prescribe the
In the United States, a boxed warning (sometimes "black box warning", colloquially) is a type of warning that appears near the beginning of the package insert for certain prescription drugs, so called because the U.S. Food and Drug Administration specifies that it is formatted with a 'box' or border around the text [1] to emphasize its ...
Therapeutic, diagnostic and preventive monoclonal antibodies are clones of a single parent cell. When used as drugs, the International Nonproprietary Names (INNs) end in -mab.
ensure its ability to engage in truthful and non-misleading speech free from the threat of a misbranding action. For the reasons that follow, the Court grants such relief. I. Background. 1 Amarin is a biopharmaceutical company incorporated in Delaware and based in New Jersey. Compl. ¶ 24. It and four medical doctors resident in New York. 2