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Promacta Fails to Control Bleeding According to FDA 2 Citations The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced that it found that Promacta does not significantly lower bleeding in patients with rare blood disorders. FDA reviewers stated that upon review of company studies that Promacta, an experimental drug from GlaxoSmithKline, was not found to help control the severity and frequency of bleeding as purported by the company. Of the two studies submitted by GlaxoSmithKline, neither showed a significant difference between patients receiving Promacta and thos, technorati.com
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Idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura 1 Citation Definition Idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura, or ITP, is a bleeding disorder caused by an abnormally low level of platelets in the patient?s blood. Platelets are small plate-shaped bodies in the blood that combine to form a plug when a blood vessel is injured. The platelet plug then binds certain proteins in the blood to form a clot that stops bleeding. ITP?s name describes its cause and two symptoms. Idiopathic means that the disorder has no apparent cause. ITP is now often called immune, technorati.com
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The Daisy Award received extraordinary nurses 1 Citation The Daisy Award received extraordinary nurses UnitedHealthcare, a UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH) company, will support The DAISY Foundation?s The DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nurses, a national program to recognize nurses, at Children?s Healthcare of Atlanta. UnitedHealthcare?s support brings total grant contributions to nearly $46,000 to the DAISY Foundation since 2006. The DAISY Award at Children?s Healthcare of Atlanta will take place on September 13th, 2008In Nursing Informatio, technorati.com
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1 Citation PURPURA TROMBOTICA TROMBOCITOPENICA, SECUNDARIA a SARCOMA de KAPOSI GANGLIONAR, SIN INMUNODEFICIENCIA. ISQUEMIA CEREBRAL PARIETO-TEMPORAL IZQUIERDA. 1 Mechán Mendez Victor. 1 Ramirez Erazo Julio, 2 Cerrillo Sanchez G. 2 Cabanillas Lapa J. 3 Salas Lopez Juan Antonio. 4 López Palomino Romano José. 5 N. Ramos Nataly Teresa. 6 Guzman Tito M. Nieves. 1. S de Medicina H2Mayo. 2 Anatomia Patologica H2Mayo. 3 S de Neumonologia H2Mayo. 4 Alumno UNMSM.Lima. 5 Interna de la UNF. Villarreal. Lima. 6 Univ., technorati.com
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FDA Approves Eltrombopag for the Treatment of Chronic Immune Thrombocytopenic Purpura 1 Citation The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved eltrombopag (Promacta) for the treatment of thrombocytopenia in patients with chronic immune thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP) who have had an insufficient response to corticosteroids, immunoglobulins, or splenectomy. ?Preventing platelet destruction has always been the primary means of treating patients with ITP. Recent advances, like the clinical trials of eltrombopag, show that increasing the production of platelets may also play a signifi, technorati.com
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Anniversary of Our One-Month Hospital Stay 1 Citation It?s quiet here this morning at 6am. The humidifier, which makes the air in our Chicago apartment breathable, hums trying to keep up with the intense dry air. I pull one of my shades to find the sun rising outside my east window. It has not broken the horizon yet, but its light sprays layers of dark purple to salmon-y pink atop the grey of the lake. Only a few windows in the 40-story highrise across the street are lit. It?s Sunday. It was a year ago today, November 23rd, that a friend, Nikki, technorati.com
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