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hi all and thanks to murray charters for posting this news item: > The Pittsburgh Business Times - July 10, 2003 > FDA closer to approving Mylan drug for Parkinson's > Mylan Laboratories Inc. said the Food and Drug Administration tentatively > approved a new drug for Parkinson's disease. > Mylan said its brand-name subsidiary, Bertek Pharmaceuticals Inc., > received an "approvable" letter from the FDA for the > drug, apomorphine hydrochloride. The FDA has requested > additional information before it decides whether to give > the drug final approval. > The FDA accepted Bertek's new drug application for apomorphine > in January and granted it fast-track status. The drug is > injected under the skin to treat so-called off periods of > Parkinson's disease,when patients experience sudden and > debilitating periods of total or partial immobility ... > http://pittsburgh.bizjournals.com/pittsburgh/stories/2003/07/07/daily37.html my only caution to other parkies out there in re injectable apomorphine is potential difficulties with addictive behaviour per pubmed abstracts on my website (see also greg leeman's story in re levodopa addiction) this is not a complaint about murray's posting: it is a thank you to him for all his wonderful WWWeb WWWork and my own two cents' worth of comment intended SSSimply for SSSharing to be fore-warned is to be fore-armed janet janet paterson: an akinetic rigid subtype, albeit primarily perky, parky pd: 56-41-37 cd: 56-44-43 tel: 613-256-8340 email: [log in to unmask] my newsletter: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/newvoicenews/ my website: http://www.geocities.com/janet313/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn