Safety Concerns and Labeling Changes for Psoriasis Drug Raptiva

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There have been a couple of messages "pussy-footing" around about this drug in the last week -10 days, which did not even say the drug is for treating Psoriasis!!...this is the FIRST message actually saying there have been serious events (enough to require hospitalization) and deaths.Guess this is the result of "Contracting Out" publishing of extremely important scientific information that should be sent IMMEDIATELY???Carolyn=============Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 08:03:27 -0500 (CDT)From: "U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA)" <fda@...>Subject: Safety Concerns and Labeling Changes for Psoriasis Drug Raptivacarwol@...Safety Concerns and Labeling Changes for Psoriasis Drug Raptiva [ http://www.fda.gov/consumer/updates/raptiva102008.html ]"Mon, 20 Oct 2008 07:20:00 -0500"FDA has received reports of serious infections leading to hospitalizations and deaths in people who use Raptiva.________________________________________________________________________Visit FDA's Consumer page: http://www.fda.gov/consumer/ Send story ideas to: fdaconsumerlist@... This service is provided to you at no charge by U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) [ http://www.fda.gov/ ]. [ http://www.fda.gov/ ] [ http://www.hhs.gov/ ] GovDelivery, Inc. sending on behalf of U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) . 5600 Fishers Lane . Rockville MD 20857 . 800-439-1420==========================