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 FDA Information - January 7, 2009
| A few years ago researchers discovered that, breast tumors, like some lung tumors, feed on estrogen. Now, a medical student conducting research at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute has managed to stop the growth of human lung cancer cells in mice with a class of breast cancer drugs called aromatase inhibitors. Olga Weinberg, the medical student, says, "It was a natural progression of the work that had already been done linking estrogen and lung cancer." She delayed her fourth year at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine to work on the project | | A vaccine against a Rotavirus may be fast approaching the U.S. market. The virus leads to the hospitalization of thousands of children in the U.S. with diarrhea and kills millions in developing countries | | Reviewers with the Food and Drug Administration find an experimental vaccine, aimed at preventing a sometimes fatal diarrheal infection in infants, seems to be effective. An FDA reviewer, however, says the agency needs more information on one trial from manufacturer Merck and Co. before it fully gauges the effectiveness of Rotateq | | The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued warning letters to nine companies that are marketing bogus flu treatments. In a statement issued Tuesday on the FDA's Web site, the agency says the companies claim their products could be effective in preventing the avian flu and other forms of influenza | | Washington, D.C. (AHN) The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issues an alert to the general public, warning consumers about findings from a study regarding the antibiotic Biaxin - made by Abbott Laboratories | |
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