A Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisory panel recommended the sale of a heart drug for African Americans, the first medicine intended for a particular racial group, the firm developing the drug, NitroMed Inc., said in a statement.
You go to the doctor for a checkup, and with a few clicks she has the results of blood tests performed at a hospital weeks before. When you leave, prescriptions have been sent electronically to your drug store.
Federal health advisers yesterday endorsed the approval of a drug to treat heart failure in African Americans, which would make the controversial pill the first medicine targeted at a specific racial group.
Police have charged a North Montgomery High School teacher with going into a family’s home and stealing prescription drugs from their medicine cabinet.
The first medicine for patients of one particular race moved closer to U.S. approval on Thursday after an advisory panel endorsed a NitroMed Inc. heart failure pill for blacks.
