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FDA Refuses to Approve Actemra Competitor, Citing Concerns Over Heart Attacks – Yet Actemra Carries No Such Warnings
One of the major problems with drugs used to treat rheumatoid arthritis is the side effects that can cause heart attacks, stroke, respiratory infections and other serious conditions. Supposedly, Actemra (tocilzumab), a product of Roche and Genentech, didn't cause...
Potential Actemra Competitor Fails to Gain FDA Approval
New Jersey-based pharmaceutical firm Johnson & Johnson may not get FDA approval this week for a rheumatoid arthritis treatment the company had hoped would successfully compete with Actemra, a drug implicated in hundreds of deaths as well as respiratory infections and...
Arthritis Medicine Actemra Has Potential Deadly Side Effects. What Did the Maker Know? Why Did the FDA Approve it?
An investigation by Stat News has revealed that approximately 1,100 patients have died as a result of taking a commonly-prescribed medication known as Actemra (tocilizumab). Most of those deaths resulted from heart attacks and lung disease – which are only two of the...
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