Thursday, February 22, 2007

FDA Warns About Asthma Drug, Xolair

The FDA is calling for a "black box" label warning for the asthmaasthma drug Xolair, alerting users it can cause potentially life-threatening allergic reactions.

The FDA issued the alert after reviewing 48 cases of anaphylaxis -- life-threatening allergic reactions - submitted to the agency from June 2003, when Xolair was approved, through December 2005.

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1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Its worth the gamble to me since asthma is limiting what I can do.

Wednesday, April 25, 2007 4:19:00 PM  

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