immune globulin
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A preparation of plasma proteins derived from the pooled plasma of adult donors. Largely comprised of IgG antibodies, therapeutic immune globulin provides passive immunization by increasing the recipient's serum levels of circulating antibodies. IgG antibodies have multiple functions, including binding to and neutralizing bacterial toxins; opsonization of pathogens; activation of complement; and suppression of pathogenic cytokines and phagocytes through binding to CD5, interleukin-1a (IL-1a), interleukin 6 (IL-6), tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha), and T-cell receptors. Therapeutic immune globulin may diminish pathogenic mechanisms in some autoimmune diseases by binding to and inhibiting the activity of autoantibodies. NCI Thesaurus | immune globulin
A preparation of plasma proteins derived from the pooled plasma of adult donors. Largely comprised of IgG antibodies, therapeutic immune globulin provides passive immunization by increasing the recipient's serum levels of circulating antibodies. IgG antibodies have multiple functions, including binding to and neutralizing bacterial toxins; opsonization of pathogens; activation of complement; and suppression of pathogenic cytokines and phagocytes through binding to CD5, interleukin-1a (IL-1a), interleukin 6 (IL-6), tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha), and T-cell receptors. Therapeutic immune globulin may diminish pathogenic mechanisms in some autoimmune diseases by binding to and inhibiting the activity of autoantibodies.
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Plasma Donors Can Make Up to $220 a Month 01 Apr 2006
International News Service, They include medical breakthroughs that found new uses for the protein immune globulin; new approaches to treatment of bleeding disorders that call for ...
Immune Globulin for Infant Botulism Mar 31, 2006
AAP Grand Rounds (subscription), Source: Arnon SS, Schechter R, Maslanka SE, et al. Human botulism immune globulin for the treatment of infant botulism. N Engl J Med. 2006;354:462–471. ...
14 in Fayette now have hepatitis A Mar 31, 2006
Kentucky.com, Then they gave those people an injection of immune globulin, which helps the body fight off a hepatitis A infection if a person has been recently exposed. ...
BioScrip Selected as Specialty Distributor for Vivaglobin Mar 29, 2006
PharmaLive.com (press release), ...has selected BioScrip as one of a limited number of specialty pharmacies authorized to purchase and dispense Vivaglobin® (Immune Globulin Subcutaneous [Human ...
10 Hepatitis A Cases Now Being Investigated In Lexington Mar 29, 2006
Lex 18, Immune globulin and Hepatitis A shots will be offered to children and school staff in the affected Early Start class at a shot clinic on Tuesday from 3:00 pm ...
Hepatitis A Vaccinations at Elementary School Mar 28, 2006
WKYT, ...that children who attend the morning Early Start Class at Yates and school staff who regularly work with those students get immune globulin shots and a ...
Yates Elementary student diagnosed with hepatitis A Mar 27, 2006
Kentucky.com, ...that children who have been in the class during the past two weeks and school staff who are in regular contact with them get immune globulin shots and ...
Hepatitis appears in second school Mar 28, 2006
Kentucky.com, ...have been in morning Early Start class at Yates during the past two weeks, and school staff who are in regular contact with them, get immune globulin shots and ...
Broward Jury Convicts Man of Fraud in Selling Counterfeit ... Mar 28, 2006
International News Service, Martino's company, Optia Medical, doctored paper work to legitimize tens of millions in questionable epogen, Procrit and immune globulin, all expensive ...
Nabi Biopharmaceuticals Announces Completion of Outside Advisory ... Mar 21, 2006
PharmaLive.com (press release), ...program, led by StaphVAX(R) [Staphylococcus aureus Polysaccharide Conjugate Vaccine] and Altastaph(R) [Staphylococcus aureus Immune Globulin Intravenous (Human ...
Former Football Great Ricky Bell Honored at Benefit Concert; R&B ... Mar 27, 2006
Genetic Engineering News, Memorial Concert is sponsored by FFF Enterprises, with headquarters in Temecula, Calif., and the nation's largest distributor of immune globulin, a treatment ...
IVIG Market In Shortage Alert Mar 28, 2006
Australasian Investment Review, It is used for maintenance treatment of people who are unable to produce sufficient amounts of immune globulin antibodies themselves, such as HIV patients). ...
Phase III Clinical Study Shows Vivaglobin, a New Subcutaneous ... Mar 6, 2006
PharmaLive.com (press release), ...of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology (AAAAI) in Miami Beach, Florida, demonstrated the safety and efficacy of new Vivaglobin(R) (Immune Globulin Subcutaneous [Human ...
FDA Approvals: HepaGam B, Xibrom, Proair HFA Mar 1, 2006
Medscape (subscription) Feb. 28, 2006 — The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved hepatitis B immune globulin [human] injection for the treatment of acute exposure to ...
Smallpox Vaccination Complication Linked to Innate Immune System Mar 22, 2006
MedPage Today, The condition is treated with Vaccinia Immune Globulin (VIG), which can reduce mortality to zero if the condition is recognized and treated quickly.
Immune system attacks body in lupus Mar 23, 2006
The Daily Athenaeum Interactive, ...steroids), or other drugs that suppress the overactive immune system such as cyclophosphamide, methotrexate, hydroxychloroquine and intravenous immune globulin ...
Cangene reports results for second quarter of fiscal 2006 Mar 15, 2006
CNW Telbec (Communiqués de presse), Revenue for the quarter was up due to sales of Vaccinia immune globulin (VIG) to the UK, which more than offset reduced WinRho(R) SDF sales in the US that ...
Nabi Digs Deep, Finds Reason To Continue StaphVAX Work Mar 22, 2006
BioWorld Online (subscription), ...polysaccharide conjugate vaccine) and the new Phase III trial, taking its second product, Altastaph (Staphylococcus aureus immune globulin intravenous [human ...
MITCH ALBOM: 'I am not an experiment' Mar 22, 2006
Detroit Free Press, He put him on a treatment program of IVIG -- intravenous immune globulin -- which is prepared from healthy human plasma and put into the patient through an ...
Differing VariZIG Recommendations Raise Dosing Questions Mar 14, 2006
Medscape (subscription) 14, 2006 — The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) has issued dosing recommendations for varicella zoster immune globulin injection (VariZIG ...
Inhibitex Reports Fourth Quarter and 2005 Fiscal Year Financial ... Mar 2, 2006
MSN Money II Veronate trial, entitled "Multi-center Study to Assess Safety and Efficacy of INH-A21, a Donor-Selected Human Staphylococcal Immune Globulin, for Prevention ...
Students Test Positive For Hepatitis At Lexington School Mar 23, 2006
WTVQ, Meanwhile; teachers and other classmates of these two students will be offered Immune Globulin shots and Hepatitis A vaccine in order to help contain the ...
Arthritis Blog Archives Mar 24, 2006
About - News & Issues, ...difference. He had found something (IVIG - intravenous immune globulin) to battle the disease. Yet it wasn't Nickerson's last battle. ...
How is Hepatitis A different from Hepatitis B and C? Mar 24, 2006
Kentucky.com, ...preparing or eating food. Also, two products used to prevent hepatitis A virus infection are immune globulin and hepatitis A vaccine.
Shots will be available at school Mar 24, 2006
Kentucky.com, The health department's medical staff will be at Mary Todd Elementary to administer immune globulin and the hepatitis A inoculate shots to all students ...
Hepatitis A reported at school Mar 24, 2006
Kentucky.com, The health department's medical staff will administer free immune globulin and the hepatitis A inoculate shots to 17 students, teachers and aides in a ...
Hepatitis cases at Lexington elementary school disclosed Mar 23, 2006
Kentucky.com, The health department's medical staff will be at Mary Todd to administer immune globulin shots to all students, teachers and aides in that particular ...
Nabi Biopharmaceuticals to Present at the Lehman Brothers Ninth ... Mar 3, 2006
PR Newswire (press release), Rasmussen, MD, Ph.D., senior vice president, clinical, medical and regulatory affairs, will speak about Civacir(R) [Hepatitis C Immune Globulin (Human)], the ...
New Approach to Quit Smoking, FDA Grants Nicotine Vaccine Fast ... Mar 9, 2006
Newsinferno.com, The company has three products on the market today: PhosLo® (calcium acetate), Nabi-HB® [Hepatitis B Immune Globulin (Human)], and Aloprim(TM) (allopurinol ...
NTU doctors celebrate after kidney surgery breakthrough Mar 15, 2006
eTaiwan News, ...transplant. This procedure removes harmful antibodies from the blood and infuses immune globulin to ward off infections. "After ...
Drug companies still rake in profits Mar 13, 2006
Sarasota Herald-Tribune, ...pain of Medicare's budget slicing." The article simply says that cuts in Medicare have eliminated a specific drug therapy (intravenous immune globulin, or IVIG ...
Cuts In Medicare Painful For Some Mar 9, 2006
Hartford Courant, The medication he was receiving until last spring is called intravenous immune globulin, or IVIG, at an annual cost that can exceed $50,000. ...
Medicare cuts ignore needs of recipients Mar 2, 2006
Los Angeles Times, I read the article about the Medicare cutbacks for the intravenous immune globulin medication with great interest. As a Medicare ...
'Low Risk for Rabies': Mar 14, 2006
Richmond Times Dispatch, ...rabies prophylaxis but state personnel countered there were side effects to the prophylaxis -- pain at the injection site for the immune globulin, redness and ...
IND for postexposure varicella prophylaxis Feb 28, 2006
AAP News (subscription) An investigational (not licensed) varicella zoster immune globulin (VZIG) product, (VariZIG, manufactured by Cangene Corporation, Winnipeg, Canada) is ...
Crucial but Costly Treatment Is Drying Up With Funding Feb 28, 2006
Los Angeles Times, The medication he was receiving until last spring is called intravenous immune globulin, or IVIG. One treatment can cost at least $3,000. ...
Newspapers Examine Cost Issues Related to Medicare Feb 28, 2006
Kaiser network.org, Times : The Times examined how as many as 10,000 Medicare beneficiaries nationwide are having difficulty obtaining intravenous immune globulin treatments after ...
North County business briefs: Trade center to host floral classes Feb 25, 2006
North County Times, ...in Temecula, and its specialty pharmacy services division, NuFACTOR, has launched a magazine for health care consumers treated with immune globulin titled IG ...
Court approves payments in Chi-Chi's hepatitis case 21 Dec 2005
Pittsburgh Post Gazette, ...court judge in Delaware approved an $800,000 settlement as part of a class-action claim filed by nearly 5,000 people who had to get immune globulin shots. ...
Nabi Biopharmaceuticals Updates Progress of its Gram-Positive ... 21 Dec 2005
PR Newswire (press release), We have three products on the market today: PhosLo(R) (calcium acetate), Nabi-HB(R) [Hepatitis B Immune Globulin (Human)], and Aloprim(TM) [Allopurinol sodium ...
Fox Had Rabies 21 Dec 2005
iBerkshires.com, Rabies exposure treatment involves two medications, a rabies immune globulin that contains virus-fighting antibodies, and a rabies vaccine. ...
Nabi Biopharmaceuticals Updates European Commercialization ... Dec 19, 2005
PR Newswire (press release), HEBIG is the European trade name for Nabi-HB(TM) Intravenous [Hepatitis B Immune Globulin (Human) Intravenous] designed to prevent re-infection of hepatitis B ...
Benefits Of Newborn Screening For 'bubble Boy Disease', Studies Dec 19, 2005
Medical News Today (press release), About half of the patients can be cured; the other half may require intravenous immune globulin therapy treatments, but can live normal lives. ...
Patrons Offered Globulin After Cafe Employee Catches Hepatitis A Dec 9, 2005
NBC4.TV, ...but that anyone who may have eaten at Cafe Pinot since Thanksgiving should immediately contact their physician to receive immune globulin to prevent possible ...
Patrons Offered Globulin After Cafe Worker Catches Hepatitis A Dec 9, 2005
NBC4.TV, ...but that anyone who may have eaten at Cafe Pinot since Thanksgiving should immediately contact his or her physician to receive immune globulin to prevent ...
Restaurant Patrons Possibly Exposed To Hepatitis A Dec 9, 2005
CBS 2, But anyone who might have eaten at Café Pinot since Thanksgiving should immediately contact their doctor to receive immune globulin, officials said. ...
Rabies Cases On The Rise In Baltimore Dec 15, 2005
WJZ, ...rabies shots. They consist of rabies vaccine, plus a scarce and costly antibody serum, human rabies immune globulin (HRIG). This ...
Autistic youth shines as performing artist Dec 16, 2005
Contra Costa Times, The Rubins tried special diets for Sam, worked with an expert nutritionist and took him to Los Angeles every six weeks for Immune Globulin Therapy (an ...
Board faults Bassett doctor Dec 15, 2005
Oneonta Daily Star, With a 41-year-old man, the report said, Bendert ordered that an immune globulin injection — which is given after possible rabies exposure — be given in ...
Study shows few serious problems among smallpox vaccinees Dec 14, 2005
CIDRAP, But there were no cases of transmission of vaccinia (the vaccine virus) to others and no severe reactions requiring treatment with vaccinia immune globulin. ...
Rabies case confirmed in Phelps County Dec 16, 2005
Rolla Daily News, Those exposed to the virus should be treated immediately with both five doses of rabies vaccine and a shot of rabies immune globulin, a somewhat painful shot ...
Covalent Group, Inc. and Emergent BioSolutions Sign Contract to ... Dec 5, 2005
PR Newswire (press release), ...of a contract under which Covalent will provide Emergent BioSolutions with operational support in the development of an anthrax immune globulin (AIG) product ...
LA restaurant worker diagnosed with hepatitis A Dec 9, 2005
San Jose Mercury News, LOS ANGELES - Employees of a popular downtown restaurant were urged to get immune globulin shots after an employee was diagnosed with hepatitis A and three ...
Serious Adverse Reactions To Smallpox Vaccine Appear To Be Limited Dec 8, 2005
Science Daily (press release) ...life-threatening adverse reactions, contact transmissions, or adverse reactions that required treatment with vaccinia immune globulin were identified. ...
Smallpox Vaccination Rarely Linked to Adverse Reactions Dec 7, 2005
Medscape (subscription) There were no preventable life-threatening adverse reactions, contact transmissions, or adverse reactions that required treatment with vaccinia immune globulin ...
LA restaurant worker diagnosed with hepatitis A Dec 9, 2005
KESQ, LOS ANGELES Employees of a popular downtown restaurant are being urged to get immune globulin shots after an employee was diagnosed with hepatitis A and three ...
Cangene reports results for first quarter of fiscal 2006 Dec 12, 2005
CNW Telbec (Communiqués de presse), ...of our VIG product to the UK government and second, we were selected as a potential supplier of a second biodefence product, anthrax immune globulin, to the US ...
Fast-food worker has hepatitis infection Dec 10, 2005
Monterey County Herald, Meanwhile, employees of a popular downtown Los Angeles restaurant were urged to get immune globulin shots after an employee was diagnosed with hepatitis A and ...
Low Rate of Adverse Events After Smallpox Vaccinations Dec 6, 2005
MedPage Today, ...life-threatening adverse reactions, contact transmissions, or adverse reactions that required treatment with vaccinia immune globulin were identified," Dr ...
Bats May Play Role in Spread of Ebola Virus, Study Says Nov 30, 2005
New York Times, The scientists found either evidence of the immune globulin g protein specific to Ebola virus in the blood or fragments of the virus in the liver or spleen of ...
Through charities, drug makers help people Dec 1, 2005
Pittsburgh Post Gazette, She takes Gamunex, an immune globulin or mix of antibodies purified out of donor blood, sold by Talecris Biotherapeutics, for which she says her insurer pays ...
Four arrested in AIDS drug scam Dec 2, 2005
Miami Herald, At the clinics, physicians Jorge Arnaldo Valido and Luis Jancito Marti wrote allegedly unnecessary prescriptions for intravenous immune globulin drugs, which ...
Black Market AIDS Ring Members Apprehended for Diverting Drugs ... Dec 1, 2005
Insurance Journal Together, they ran a scheme that fraudulently used Florida Medicaid funds to obtain millions of dollars in human immune globulin, which is used to treat ...
Agencies focus on health care fraud Dec 2, 2005
Sun-Sentinel.com, ...case out of Miami accuses five people, including two doctors, of "diverting," illegally obtaining and then re-selling, Intravenous Immune Globulin, which is ...
Life Therapeutics Announces Influenza Program Multi-year project ... Nov 22, 2005
Biotech Intelligence (press release), 22, 2005 - Life Therapeutics (ASX: LFE) announced today that the company has started an early-stage project to develop a specialty immune globulin for influenza ...
Life Therapeutics Announces Influenza Program Multi-year project ... Nov 21, 2005
Asia Corporate News Network (press release), Life Therapeutics (ASX: LFE) announced today that the company has started an early-stage project to develop a specialty immune globulin for influenza. ...
Biotech Earnings Jump In Quarter Nov 21, 2005
Chemical & Engineering News Compared with the year-ago quarter, sales fell for its PhosLo phosphate binder and its Nabi-HB hepatitis B immune globulin, used in liver transplant surgery. ...
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