LABELING UPDATE: CLASS study, updated GI, CV risk info, added to celecoxib label
Safety information from the Celecoxib Long-term Arthritis Safety Study (CLASS)on GI and cardiovascular events has been included in safety labeling forcelecoxib (Celebrex, Searle).
Jenny Goins, interim head of the National Alliance of Healthcare Purchaser Coalitions, says employers need the same visibility into medical benefits that a new Department of Labor rule gives them into PBM compensation.
People with ADHD had a 70% higher risk of death from any cause in a 19-study meta-analysis, with excess deaths from suicide, injury and natural causes.
Bronchiectasis affected 221.6 per 100,000 people in the U.S. over five years, which is higher than earlier national estimates, according to a study published in CHEST.
Adding Sunharbo (asundexian), a first-in-class factor XI inhibitor, to single or dual antiplatelet therapy reduces ischemic stroke risk without increasing the risk of major bleeding.