Philadelphia personal injury lawyers have learned that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently announced that Xolair, an injectqable asthma treatment, is associated with a higher risk of heart attack, mini-stroke, chest pain and blood clots in the lungs and veins, among other problems.
The FDA added information about the increased risks to the drug’s label after analyzing findings from a five-year safety study submitted by the drug’s manufacturer, Genentech, a unit of Roche Holding AG, and 25 clinical trials comparing Xolair to a placebo.
Xolair is an injectable drug that was originally approved in 2003 to treat moderate to severe asthma in adults and children ages 12 or over whose condition was not controlled by inhaled steroids. The drug is also approved to treat a chronic form of hives in adults and adolescents.
The FDA said that the recent data is suggestive of a serious safety signal. The problems involve the blood vessels supplying the heart and brain, the FDA said, and include a greater risk of pulmonary hypertension, or high blood pressure in the arteries of the lungs.
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