{"id":17228,"date":"2017-11-17T22:00:45","date_gmt":"2017-11-17T16:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zovon.com\/?p=17228"},"modified":"2018-06-26T11:10:27","modified_gmt":"2018-06-26T05:40:27","slug":"fda-approves-helimbra-new-drug-prevent-bleeding-episodes-hemophilia-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zovon.com\/?p=17228","title":{"rendered":"FDA approves Helimbra, new drug to prevent bleeding episodes in Hemophilia A patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Helimbra (Emicizumab-kxwh) for preventing or reducing bleeding episodes in some patients of Hemophilia A.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">People with Hemophilia A generally lack a gene that is responsible for producing blood-clotting factor, called Factor VIII. This drug is administered in patients with antibodies, known as Factor VIII inhibitors. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">According to FDA, approximately 5000 babies born in the U.S. are affected by hemophilia, and out of these, 80% have Hemophilia A. Also, this disease is more common in male babies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">In Hemophilia A, patients generally experience bleeding in the joints, which can cause severe damage. In some cases, the patients start developing antibodies against the standard treatment for bleeding episodes. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Dr. Richard Pazdur, Acting Director, FDA\u2019s Office of Hematology and Oncology Products, told that the approval for Helimbra is a great preventive measure to prevent bleeding episodes in patients with hemophilia A and Factor VIII inhibitors. He also added that when patients were treated with Helimbra, they showed improvement in their physical activities. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">A few side effects of the drug was also reported like reaction on the site of injection, headache and joint pain.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">FDA said, \u201cThe drug&#8217;s label includes a boxed warning of possible blood clots among recipients who also are given anti-bleeding medication.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Source:\u00a0drugs.com<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Helimbra (Emicizumab-kxwh) for preventing or reducing bleeding episodes in some patients of Hemophilia A. People with Hemophilia A generally lack a gene that is responsible for producing blood-clotting factor, called Factor VIII. This drug is administered in patients with antibodies, known as Factor VIII inhibitors. According [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31023,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12660],"tags":[21371],"class_list":{"0":"post-17228","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-latest-health-news","8":"tag-fda"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zovon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zovon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zovon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zovon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zovon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zovon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zovon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zovon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zovon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zovon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}