Recent news on Gatifloxacin

Fluoroquinolones to prevent postoperative keratitis and ...  -  Apr 10, 2007
OSN SuperSite (subscription),9 Patients were randomized to receive one drop each of the fourth-generation fluoroquinolone ophthalmic solutions moxifloxacin and gatifloxacin,

Trends in Tuberculosis Incidence—United States, 2006  -  Apr 24, 2007
Journal of American Medical Association (subscription),Six agents in five different drug classes are being tested in humans (TMC-207, OPC 67683, SQ109, PA824, moxifloxacin, and gatifloxacin).

Keys to success with surface ablation  -  Apr 10, 2007
OSN SuperSite (subscription),...that the same epithelialization rates resulted from nepafenac and moxifloxacin when compared to ketorolac and gatifloxacin ophthalmic solution 0.3%.

TB Incidence Rate Drops in US, But Decline Slows  -  Mar 23, 2007
MedPage Today,Currently, six drugs of five different types -- TMC-207, OPC 67683, SQ109, PA824, moxifloxacin (Avelox), and gatifloxacin (Tequin) -- are being tested

Point/counterpoint: Intracameral antibiotics decrease ...  -  Mar 2, 2007
OSN SuperSite (subscription),...that number was reduced to three or four cases, and with the combination of intracameral vancomycin and topical gatifloxacin (Zymar, Allergan),

Fluoroquinolones penetrated cornea when delivered via collagen shields  -  Feb 21, 2007
OSN SuperSite (subscription),After 3 hours, aqueous humor samples showed high concentrations of antibiotics: 3.1 µg/mL for Vigamox and 2.3 µg/mL for gatifloxacin.

Full Text  -  Feb 22, 2007
Science Magazine (subscription)Gatifloxacin is already in Phase III and moxifloxacin is about to enter Phase III with the TB Alliance, US Centers for Disease Control, and Bayer.

Exacerbation of Psychotic Symptoms Associated With Gatifloxacin  -  Jan 5, 2007
Psychosomatics (subscription)He developed bronchitis, and gatifloxacin 400 mg q am was started. Late on the next day, he began hearing voices and experiencing command hallucinations,

Antibiotic suspected as factor in deaths  -  Jan 4, 2007
Canada.com,And gatifloxacin is known to sometimes cause glycemic problems, said Dr. Grant Stiver, a Vancouver-based infectious disease specialist.

Business Standard / New Delhi December 06, 2006  -  Dec 5, 2006
Business Standard,And given that there are a large number of producers (101 for ciprofloxacin, 67 for gatifloxacin, and so on), the chances of cartelisation are remote. ...

Hypoglycemic Effect of Ciprofloxacin in Elderly Patients Not a ...  Oct 16, 2006
TORONTO, CANADA -- October 16, 2006 -- The development of hypoglycemia in elderly patients appears to be a side effect unique to gatifloxacin, and does not ... -DG News Resistance to First-Line Antibiotics to Treat Community Acquired ...  Oct 12, 2006
Respiratory fluoroquinolones (moxifloxacin, levofloxacin and gatifloxacin), oral beta-lactams (amoxicillin-clavulanate + macrolides, cephalosporins + macrolides ... -DG News Antibiotics to Treat Common Sinus Disorders  Sep 17, 2006
...line treatment and recommended second-line antibiotics were amoxicillin-clavulanate, cefuroxime, cefprozil, clarithromycin, gatifloxacin, levofloxacin and ... -Newswise

FDA Should Warn of Tendon Ruptures Linked To Antibiotics in Same ...  Aug 29, 2006
...and genito‑urinary tract infections, include Cipro (Ciprofloxacin, made by Bayer), Penetrex (Enoxacin, made by Aventis), Tequin (Gatifloxacin, made by Bristol ... -World Fitness

Public Citizen Petitions the FDA to Include a Black Box Warning on ...  Aug 29, 2006
...antibiotics presently on the market in the United States [Ciprofloxacin (Cipro; Bayer), Enoxacin (Penetrex; Aventis), Gatifloxacin (Tequin; Bristol-Myers Squibb ... -PharmaLive.com

Fluoroquinolones in children addressed in AAP policy  Sep 1, 2006
Trovafloxacin (Trovan) and gatifloxacin (Tequin) were studied and reported in children, but neither is currently available based on decisions made by the ... -AAP News (subscription)

Business Standard / New Delhi December 06, 2006  -  Dec 5, 2006
Business Standard,And given that there are a large number of producers (101 for ciprofloxacin, 67 for gatifloxacin, and so on), the chances of cartelisation are remote.

China press review for November 21, 2006 - the evening papers  -  Nov 21, 2006
Interfax.cn (subscription),The State Food and Drug Administration issued the latest adverse drug reaction notification, alerting doctors to pay attention to Gatifloxacin,

Ciprofloxacin-Induced Manic Episode  -  Nov 20, 2006
Psychosomatics (subscription)Sumner CL, Elliott RL: Delirium associated with gatifloxacin. Psychosomatics 2003; 44:85–86 [Free Full Text]. Mulhall JP, Bergmann LS: Ciprofloxacin-induced

Gatifloxacin-Induced Hallucinations in a 19-Year-Old Man  Jul 14, 2006
...ciprofloxacin cited the most often (rare CNS side effects of seizures 2,3 and hallucinations 4,5 ). Significant adverse reactions to gatifloxacin have been ... -Psychosomatics (subscription)



Outpatient Gatifloxacin Therapy and Dysglycemia  Mar 29, 2006
Mamdani, Pharm.D., MPH. Background Gatifloxacin has been associated with both hypoglycemia and hyperglycemia. We examined dysglycemia ... - New England Journal of Medicine (subscription)

Clostridium Difficile-Associated Disease a Growing Threat to US ...  Apr 7, 2006
...there is the appearance of a significant increase (P <.001) in the resistance of the BI/NAP1 strain to the fluoroquinolones gatifloxacin and moxifloxacin, in ... - DG News

Serious Adverse Drug Effects — Seeing the Trees through the ...  Mar 29, 2006
...that appears elsewhere in this issue of the Journal 1 regarding the association of the fluoroquinolone gatifloxacin with dysglycemia. ... - New England Journal of Medicine (subscription)

Popular antibiotic has side-effects in elderly  Mar 13, 2006
The drug, Gatifloxacin, belonging to a class of antibiotics called Fluoroquinolones, prescribed by Indian doctors for respiratory and throat infections and ... - Times of India

AUDIO SUMMARY  Mar 29, 2006
Featured are articles on an avian influenza vaccine, gatifloxacin therapy and dysglycemia, the prevalance of monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance ... - New England Journal of Medicine (subscription)

ActivX/Kyorin Begins First US Phase I Study for Novel Anti ...  Mar 15, 2006
...of its key products and development compounds include Norfloxacin (first new quinolone antibiotic licensed to Merck and Co.) and Gatifloxacin (new quinolone ... - PharmaLive.com

New combination treatment that could dramatically shorten the ...  Jan 10, 2006
Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC), held in Washington DC last month, heard that phase II trials of a gatifloxacin-containing regimen ... - News-Medical.net

TT & Zydus Q3 results  Jan 29, 2006
During the quarter under review, the group received approvals for Ribavirin Capsules, Promethazine Tablets and tentative approval for Gatifloxacin Tablets from ... - Business Standard

New Drug Combination May Shorten TB Treatment  Jan 17, 2006
The researchers replaced one of the four drugs in the combination currently used to treat TB. They replaced ethambutol with a drug called gatifloxacin. ... - Voice of America

E. Coli Defense Mechanism May Provide Key to Disrupting Bacteria ...  Jan 16, 2006
...more severe cases of gastroenteritis, antibiotics such as erythromycin, clarithromycin, azithromycin ciprofloxacin, levofloxacin, gatifloxacin, or moxifloxacin ... - Newsinferno.com

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