Recent news on Cefepime

Farmers, doctors battle over new drug for dairy cows  -  May 18, 2007
High Plains Journal,They worry it would eventually foster resistance to the related human drug cefepime, which is used on infections in cancer patients and on tough infections

FDA Should Reject Cattle Drug  -  May 2, 2007
Hartford Courant,Called cefepime, it's the drug of last resort for humans suffering from infections that would otherwise be invincible. The FDA appears poised to approve the

FDA turning resistant to the public interest  -  Apr 26, 2007
Chicago Sun-Times,Use of the drug, cefquinome, in animals also could undermine the effectiveness of a similar drug, cefepime. ''There is reasonable certainty of no harm to

FDA turning resistant to the public interest  -  26 Apr 2007
Chicago Sun-Times,Use of the drug, cefquinome, in animals also could undermine the effectiveness of a similar drug, cefepime. ''There is reasonable certainty of no harm to

Beware wider use of antibiotics in animals  -  Apr 8, 2007
Minneapolis Star Tribune (subscription),A close cousin, cefepime, is the only effective treatment available for some serious infections. Worried that using cefquinome in animals puts the efficacy

Elan Reports First Quarter 2007 Financial Results  -  Apr 24, 2007
PharmaLive.com (press release),...(Apotex) stating that Apotex intends to enter the US market with Apotex's cefepime hydrochloride upon receiving approval from the US Food and Drug

Farmers, doctors battle over new drug  -  Apr 13, 2007
Capital Press (subscription),They worry it would eventually foster resistance to the related human drug cefepime, which is used on infections in cancer patients and on tough infections

Despite warnings of effects on people, FDA ready to OK antibiotic ...  -  Mar 5, 2007
Daily Mail - Charleston,Only one medicine from that family has been approved in the United States -- a powerful human drug called cefepime (brand name Maxipime), which is the only

FDA Approves Cattle Antibiotic Despite Concerns  -  Mar 5, 2007
오마�뉴스,This new powerful antibiotic for cattle, cefquinome, is very similar to the antibiotic cefepime [Maxipime] which is used as a last ditch effort when other

Limit use of livestock drugs  -  Mar 12, 2007
Buffalo News,But once cefquinome gets into the biosphere, cefepime’s days are numbered. Oh, sure, they’ll invent another drug. But do you want to be the one suffering

FDA Prepares to Approve Bovine Drug, Despite Protests  -  Mar 4, 2007
Associated Content,The potential problem with cefquinome is that it may lessen the effect of the human drug, cefepime. The FDA, however, does not consider cefepime to be a

News in Brief  -  Mar 7, 2007
Nature.com (subscription),It belongs to the same family of drugs as cefepime, the only drug in the class approved for human use in the United States. Cefepime is used to treat

Approval expected for cattle drug  -  Mar 4, 2007
Fort Worth Star Telegram,Cefquinome's primary threat is that it may undermine the usefulness of the closely related human drug, cefepime. But the FDA does not consider cefepime a

Healthy cattle, healthy humans  -  Mar 12, 2007
The Argus,The human version, known as cefepime, is typically administered intravenously in a hospital to treat severe pneumonia or other serious infections.

Of Rice, Human Genes And Human Error  -  Mar 23, 2007
Nebraska StatePaper.com,...despite warnings it will “undermine the usefulness� of cefepime, “which is the only effective treatment for serious infections in cancer patients.�

An ever-deepening Egnorance  -  Mar 22, 2007
ScienceBlogs...in deciding what antibiotics to prescribe in different circumstances, and which to try first (that's why I was started on penicillin, and not Cefepime).

Resistant Bugs  -  Mar 10, 2007
Washington Post,But overusing cefquinome might undermine a similar antibiotic for humans, cefepime, that is an essential medication for treating many infections that are

Tysabri forecast to drive Elan's return to profitability  -  Feb 21, 2007
Pharma Times (subscription),Revenues for the quarter rose 18.5% to $166.4 million, though sales of its Maxipime (cefepime) antibiotic slipped 1.3% to $46.2 million ahead of US patent

Dangers of agricultural antibiotics  -  Jan 16, 2007
Denver Post,This class of antibiotics includes the important human drug cefepime, used to treat pneumonia and resistant infections, especially in children.

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