Tag Archives: Smallpox

[ad_1] WASHINGTON: The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Saturday approved the first drug with an indication for the treatment of smallpox. Smallpox, an infectious contagious and sometimes fatal disease, was …

[ad_1] The FDA has just approved a drug that could be used to treat smallpox. The disease was officially eradicated in 1980, but the authors fear that people could recreate smallpox and …

[ad_1] The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently approved a smallpox drug – a disease that was eradicated nearly 40 years ago. On July 13, the agency announced that she was approving …

[ad_1] The deadly smallpox virus has been eradicated worldwide for a long time – but experts now fear that the virus could be turned into a biological weapon. As a precautionary measure, …

[ad_1] In its announcement, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) explained that it had encouraged the development of a smallpox treatment because of the "risk of bioterrorism." Variola virus, as it …

[ad_1] The FDA approved the first treatment for smallpox. SIGA Technologies tested the drug in 359 healthy volunteers to demonstrate its safety and relied on animal data to demonstrate its efficacy. Smallpox …

[ad_1] In 1980, the World Health Organization declared the world free of smallpox, three years after the last known case of contagious and often fatal disease. Yet on Friday, the US Food …

[ad_1] Whenever the FDA approves a drug, companies usually tout the patient population that it will help. However, this is not exactly the case for the most recent approval to the FDA …