Apollo – Main Unit (2019-10-30)
https://healthycanadians.gc.ca/recall-alert-rappel-avis/hc-sc/2019/71615r-eng.php
WHO Expert Committee on Biological Standardization (ECBS) have been posted main outcomes of the meeting held from 21 to 25 October 2019 on the biologicals website at the url as follows: https://www.who.int/biologicals/WHO_ECBS/en/
Guidelines on the quality, safety and efficacy of respiratory syncytial virus vaccines; and Recommendations to assure the quality, safety and efficacy of poliomyelitis vaccines (inactivated) – Amendments (2019) to Annex 3 of WHO TRS No. 993
Please note that, as stated in the document, they are now subject to WHO editorial review and there will be further editorial changes but without affecting the technical contents. The final version will be published in the WHO Technical Report Series (TRS) in 2020.
Pembrolizumab en cáncer de pulmón de células no pequeñas (CPCNP) avanzado (irresecable o metastásico) sin tratamiento previo
http://sites.bvsalud.org/redetsa/brisa/resource/?id=biblioref.referencesource.1025056
The CARPHA Caribbean Regulatory System (CRS) recently recommended its first biosimilar product which can become part of the support to cancer management in its Member States. Pegfilgrastim, the active ingredient, is designed to boost the body’s immune response, thereby allowing cancer patients to keep fighting infections while receiving cancer treatments, such as chemotherapy, that harm blood cell production. It may be used in the management of various cancers.
For more information go to http://new.carpha.org/What-We-Do/Programmes-and-Projects/CRS/Caribbean-Regulatory-System
Alerta sanitaria: Ministerio de Salud recomienda no utilizar vaporizadores
7 de noviembre, 2019. Debido a la última información provista por el Centro para la Prevención y Control de Enfermedades (CDC), el Ministerio de Salud recomienda a la población en general no utilizar vaporizadores, incluyendo cigarros electrónicos.
Alfa-alglicosidase como terapia de reposição enzimática na doença de pompe
http://sites.bvsalud.org/redetsa/brisa/resource/?id=biblioref.referencesource.1024750
Adalimumabe, golimumabe, infliximabe e vedolizumabe para tratamento da retocolite ulcerativa moderada a grave
http://sites.bvsalud.org/redetsa/brisa/resource/?id=biblioref.referencesource.1024749
Salud levanta todas las órdenes sanitarias de centros penales afectados por paperas
8 de noviembre del 2019. El Ministerio de Salud levantó hoy todas órdenes sanitarias vigentes para los centros penitenciarios que fueron afectados por el brote de paperas.
Ministère de la Santé Publique et de la Population annonce la 5ème visite en Haïti du navire-hôpital américain USNS Comfort qui se fera du 4 au 13 novembre 2019.
