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- Monday, December 29, 2014, 10:42 AM. After promising clinical trials, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a drug called Saxenda for chronic weight management that will be available by prescription to overweight and obese adults.
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New Weight Loss Drug Approved By FDA: Compare Diet Pills, Diets, And Supplements New Weight Loss Drug Approved By FDA: Compare Diet Pills, Diets, And Supplements. Just in time for those New Year’s weight loss resolutions, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a new weight loss drug. However, Saxenda (liraglutide) requires an injection and is recommended for specific categories of individuals, reported CBS News.
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Beware of Products Promising Miracle Weight Loss For example, FDA has found weight-loss products tainted with the prescription drug ingredient sibutramine. This ingredient was in an FDA-approved drug called Meridia, which was removed from the market in October 2010 because it caused heart problems and strokes.
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SaxendaÂ® â A New Treatment for Obesity Saxenda® is a synthetic protein that acts just like GLP-1. Although, it is now engineered in laboratories, this GLP-1 like substance was initially discovered in the saliva of a venomous reptile, the Gila monster. It was observed to have a multifunctional role.
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- Jan 13, 2016. NORTHVALE, N.J., Jan. 13, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The United State Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) granted Elite Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Elite or the “Company) (OTCBB:ELTP) a waiver of the application fee required for the filing of a New Drug Application (NDA).
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- Similar to how pharmaceutical drugs must be FDA-Approved to enter the market, medical devices must be FDA-Cleared. The Fisher Wallace Stimulator® is FDA-Cleared for the treatment of depression, anxiety and insomnia. It also has a separate FDA clearance to treat pain on the body.The only patients who are not qualified to use the device are those with implanted medical devices, such as a pacemaker or vagus nerve stimulator.imilar to how pharmaceutical drugs must be FDA-Approved to enter the market, medical devices must be FDA-Cleared. The Fisher Wallace Stimulator® is FDA-Cleared for the treatment of depression, anxiety and insomnia. It also has a separate FDA clearance to treat pain on the body.
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New Diabetes Drug Victoza Approved Jan. 26, 2010 -- The FDA has approved Victoza (liraglutide), a once-daily injection to treat type 2 diabetes in adults. Victoza is intended to help lower blood sugar levels along with diet, exercise, and selected other diabetes medicines.Controlling blood sugar levels is very important to preventing or reducing the long term complications of diabetes, and Victoza offers certain patients with type 2 diabetes a treatment option for controlling their blood glucose levels, Parks says.
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Antidepressant Brintellix (vortioxetine) Approved by FDA The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a new medication Monday to treat clinical depression called Brintellix (vortioxetine). It has been approved for use in adults only.rintellix was discovered by Lundbeck researchers in Copenhagen, Denmark. The clinical trial program in the U.S. was conducted jointly by Lundbeck and Takeda, and Takeda holds the new drug application for the U.S. market.
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FDA approves new drug to treat heart failure The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved Entresto (sacubitril/valsartan) tablets for the treatment of heart failure. The drug has been shown to reduce the rate of cardiovascular death and hospitalization related to heart failure. Heart failure is a common condition affecting about 5.1 million people in the United States.
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- The Qnexa FDA approval is currently pending and the pharmaceutical company behind Qnexa (now called Qsymia), Vivus is revising their safety precautions for the FDA. Qnexa / Qsymia is not available for prescription now but if approved by the FDA, you could be prescribed and be able to buy Qnexa soon. The FDA will most likely give their final approval of it quite possibly July of this year 2012.
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- Saxenda (liraglutide) is a GLP-1 analog. GLP-1 analogs, including liraglutide, are approved for the treatment of Type 2 diabetes - see GLP-1 analogs in diabetes. In diabetes studies, GLP-1 analogs caused a small amount of weight loss. This observation led to the development of Saxenda for weight loss.
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FDA Approves New Blood Thinner Eliquis Dec. 31, 2012 -- The FDA has approved the blood thinner Eliquis to prevent stroke in people with atrial fibrillation. AFib is the most common type of irregular heartbeat and affects about 3 million Americans. People with AFib are about five times more likely to have a stroke.
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Approval of Saxenda, an anti-obesity drug, doesnât mean insurers will pay for it “Most health plans will cover things that have an immediate impact in that plan year,” Miller says. Miller estimates that about a third of companies don’t cover anti-obesity drugs at all, a third cover all FDA-approved weight-loss drugs, and a third cover them with restrictions to limit their use. The Medicare prescription drug program specifically excludes coverage of anti-obesity drugs.
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FDA Denies Empagliflozin Approval, Citing Facility Concern Canagliflozin was the first of these agents to be approved in the United States at the end of March last year; another, dapagliflozin (Farxiga, AstraZeneca/BMS), was also recently cleared by the FDA in its second attempt. Both drugs are available in Europe, where empagliflozin is also under regulatory review. Ipragliflozin (Sugat, Astellas Pharma and Kotobuki Pharmaceutical) is the first SGLT2 inhibitor to be approved for use in Japan.
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What Is Saxenda, the New âBlockbusterâ Weight Loss Medication? Posted: 05/21/2015 6:09 pm EDT Updated: 05/21/2015 6:59 pm EDT. There is a new blockbuster weight loss drug on the market, Saxenda, and it is available in many U.S. pharmacies this month. It is perhaps the most important weight loss medication ever developed. Novo Nordisk Inc., a very big and very old Danish pharmaceutical company, has launched the new drug after months of anticipation by consumers, clinicians and market watchers. Saxenda is very different from all other weight loss drugs.
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What are overweight and obesity? The table below lists FDA-approved prescription medications for weight loss. The FDA has approved five of these drugs—orlistat (Xenical, Alli), lorcaserin (Belviq), phentermine-topiramate (Qsymia), naltrexone-bupropion (Contrave), and liraglutide (Saxenda)—for long-term use.
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FDA approves a third new weight-loss pill FDA approves a third new weight-loss pill. For the third time in about two years, the Food and Drug Administration has approved a new weight loss pill. This one is called Contrave and it got FDA approval Wednesday.The medication is made by Orexigen.DA has approved a new weight loss pill, the third in about two years (Photo: TIM SLOAN AFP/Getty Images). 816 CONNECT 2058 TWEET LINKEDIN 17 COMMENT EMAIL MORE.
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Generic Plavix Availability Has a generic version of Ultram been approved? A generic version of Ultram has been approved by the FDA. However, this does not mean that the product will necessarily be commercially available - possibly because of drug patents and/or drug exclusivity. The following products are equivalent to Ultram and have been approved by the FDA: Manufacturer: ACCORD HLTHCARE INC.
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- Trintellix Approval History. 1  FDA approved: Yes (First approved September 30th, 2013) 2  Brand name: Trintellix. 3  Generic name: vortioxetine.  Dosage form: 1  Tablets. Previous name: Brintellix.  Company: Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., 1  Inc. Treatment for: Depression, Major Depressive Disorder.
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- Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. got its Huntington's disease drug approved by the Food and Drug Administration late Monday. The drug, Austedo, is the second drug ever approved for chorea, the writhing movements nearly all Huntington's disease patients experience. Austedo should be available in the U.S. in the next three weeks, Teva said.
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FDA Approves Generic Rosuvastatin ( Crestor) FDA Approves Generic Rosuvastatin (Crestor) SILVER SPRING, MD — Widely prescribed rosuvastatin (Crestor, AstraZeneca) is joining the crowded field in the US of generically available statins. Today the Food and Drug Administration approved a generic version of rosuvastatin calcium in several pill strengths for marketing by Actavis (formerly Watson Pharmaceuticals, the name used by the agency).
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All About the Weight Loss 'Balloon' The FDA Just Approved HealthDay Reporter. WEDNESDAY, July 29, 2015 (HealthDay News) — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s approval of a temporary, implanted balloon device for weight loss may have many wondering how — and how well — it works.ealthDay Reporter. WEDNESDAY, July 29, 2015 (HealthDay News) — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s approval of a temporary, implanted balloon device for weight loss may have many wondering how — and how well — it works.
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- At a minimum, at least 20% of people have this transfer of addiction, but it's probably more like 40% to 50%.. Appetite Hormone Medications. Medications to regulate appetite hormones are in the experimental phase, Isaacs says. Only the drug Saxenda (liraglutide) is FDA approved and currently available, he says. Saxenda is a synthetic version of a feel-full hormone (GLP-1) that's self-injected daily and slows gastric emptying.
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- Ridgefield, Conn., January 16, 2018 – Boehringer Ingelheim today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a supplemental New Drug Application (sNDA) for Gilotrif (afatinib) for the first-line treatment of patients with metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) whose tumors have non-resistant epidermal growth factor...
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- LILLY (ELI) & COMPANY - Bydureon Reply Submitted To FDA As well as the positive guidance from the SMC on the use of BYETTA, there has recently been a reimbursement approval for BYETTA in Sweden where the Pharmaceutical Benefits Board (LFN) concluded that BYETTA should be reimbursed in the pharmaceutical benefits system for use in people with type 2 diabetes.
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FDA approves a third new weight-loss pill FDA has approved a new weight loss pill, the third in about two years (Photo: TIM SLOAN AFP/Getty Images). 816 CONNECT 2058 TWEET LINKEDIN 17 COMMENT EMAIL MORE.For the third time in about two years, the Food and Drug Administration has approved a new weight-loss pill. Contrave got FDA approval Wednesday.The medication is made by Orexigen Therapeutics Inc., San Diego, and will be marketed by Takeda Pharmaceutical of Japan.DA has approved a new weight loss pill, the third in about two years (Photo: TIM SLOAN AFP/Getty Images). 816 CONNECT 2058 TWEET LINKEDIN 17 COMMENT EMAIL MORE.