Advanced Magnetics Announces Positive Results from Phase III Study of...

PR Newswire;  November 17, 2006 ;     700+ words ......ferumoxytol within one week or 200 mg of oral iron daily for three weeks. The study demonstrated...ferumoxytol significantly outperformed oral iron for the primary endpoint of change in...35 (ferumoxytol 0.81 +/- 1.24 g/dl vs. oral iron 0.21 +/- 1.04 g/dl, p=0.0002). The results...

Panel favors restricted use of IV iron product.(NEWS FROM THE FDA)

Internal Medicine News;  March 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......women had had an unsatisfactory response to oral iron or could not tolerate oral iron, although it was studied as a first-line treatment...product in clinical trials, compared with placebo, oral iron, or iron sucrose injection (Venofer). Panel...

Advanced Magnetics Announces Positive Results from Two Additional Phase...

PR Newswire;  April 11, 2007 ;     700+ words ......ferumoxytol within one week or 200 mg of oral iron daily for three weeks. This Phase III...undergoing ferumoxytol therapy as compared to oral iron therapy. In my opinion, the results from...hemoglobin compared to patients receiving oral iron (ferumoxytol 1.24 +/- 1.25 g/dl vs. ...

Iron deficiency anemia due to a defect in iron metabolism: A case report

Clinical Laboratory Science;  July 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......that they both had been treated with oral iron. When they failed to respond they were...was started on a replacement dose of oral iron (6 mg/kg/day). Laboratory tests were repeated sixty days after beginning the oral iron. The results were unchanged (Table 2...

Concerns about off-label use may derail approval of IV iron.(NEWS FROM THE...

Family Practice News;  March 1, 2008 ;     501 words ......women had had an unsatisfactory response to oral iron or could not tolerate oral iron, although it was studied as a first-line treatment...product in clinical trials, compared with placebo, oral iron, or iron sucrose injection (Venofer). Panel...

Ask Dr. Gott

Herald News, The (Joliet, IL);  October 27, 2001 ;     550 words ......anemia due to "depleted iron stores." Oral iron supplements were of no value, so my doctors...improvement. Apparently, I cannot absorb oral iron. My ferritin level proved this, which...iron-deficient patients respond promptly to oral iron supplements, there is a small sub-group...

Iron and its relation to immunity and infectious disease

The Journal of Nutrition;  February 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......of infection, in particular, malaria. Oral iron has been associated with increased rates...most instances, therapeutic doses of oral iron were used. No studies in malarial regions...A balance must be struck in dose of oral iron and the timing of intervention with respect...

Prospective study of severe breath holding spells and role of iron

Journal of Pediatric Neurology;  January 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......were enrolled to evaluate the effect of oral iron in decreasing the frequency of BHS and...that particular age) were treated with oral iron (6 mg/kg/day) for 12 weeks. Other patients...in 35/59 patients and these received oral iron therapy for 12 weeks. Twenty-four patients...

Effect of omeprazole on oral iron replacement in patients with iron...

Southern Medical Journal;  September 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......Key Words: iron deficiency, omeprazole, oral iron ********** Clinicians treating iron deficiency...respond well to seemingly adequate doses of oral iron even in the absence of any objective...explanation for the lack of response to the oral iron. Although this seems very plausible...

Ambulatory Management of Common Forms of Anemia.

American Family Physician;  March 15, 1999 ;     700+ words ......available in oral and parenteral forms. Oral iron preparations are available in both ferrous...least expensive and most commonly used oral iron supplement. For iron replacement therapy...the patient's diet. Side effects from oral iron replacement therapy are common in most...

Advanced Magnetics Announces Presentation of Ferumoxytol Data at the...

PR Newswire;  March 6, 2007 ;     700+ words ......ferumoxytol within one week or 200 mg of oral iron daily for three weeks. The primary endpoint...ferumoxytol group compared to that in the oral iron treatment group. Results from the second...ferumoxytol within one week or 200 mg of oral iron daily for three weeks. The primary ...

On omeprazole and iron replacement.(Letters to the Editor)

Southern Medical Journal;  March 1, 2005 ;     332 words ......great interest the article (1) entitled Effect of Omeprazole on Oral Iron Replacement in Patients With Iron Deficiency Anemia. The authors...Sharma VR, Brannon MA, Carloss EA. Effect of omeprazole on oral iron replacement in patients with iron deficiency anemia. South...

Intravenous iron therapy in chronic kidney disease and peritoneal dialysis...

Nephrology Nursing Journal;  October 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......routine use of parenteral iron, instead of oral iron, as the treatment of choice to replete...Fadem, Welch, & Lifschitz, 1982). Oral iron supplementation is often inadequate in...approximately 50% (Kooistra et al., 1998). Oral iron absorption is inversely correlated with...

Novartis files Exjade new drug applications.(Industry News)

Pharmaceutical Processing;  June 1, 2005 ;     304 words ......regulatory submissions for Exjade[R] (deferasirox), a once-daily oral iron chelator for the treatment of chronic iron overload due to...in the U.S., EU and Australia. An easy to administer novel oral iron chelator, Exjade is simply taken once daily, after dispersing...

Iron supplementation increases disease activity and vitamin E ameliorates...

The Journal of Nutrition;  October 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......associated with iron deficiency anemia and oral iron supplementation may be required. However...sodium (DSS)-induced colitis whether oral iron supplementation increases intestinal...reducing inflammation. In conclusion, oral iron supplementation resulted in an increase...