{"id":2776,"date":"2007-03-19T23:01:12","date_gmt":"2007-03-19T23:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/diyhealth.com\/?p=2776"},"modified":"2020-05-15T16:07:17","modified_gmt":"2020-05-15T10:37:17","slug":"zyvox-under-fire-fda-issues-alert-over-the-pfizer-antibiotic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drprem.com\/globalhealthcare\/zyvox-under-fire-fda-issues-alert-over-the-pfizer-antibiotic","title":{"rendered":"Zyvox under fire: FDA issues alert over the Pfizer antibiotic"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A safety alert was issued over Pfizer Inc.’s antibiotic ‘Zyvox’ by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. A comparative study between three antibiotics found a higher chance of death in seriously ill patients administered by Zyvox.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is not the first time that mankind is subjected to a situation like this<\/strong>. There have been instances from the past which have shown us the fatal results of a drug going wrong.<\/p>\n

Zyvox<\/strong> or linezolid<\/strong>, is an approved drug in the United States <\/strong>for treatment of a variety of bacterial infections, including pneumonia <\/strong>and skin infections <\/strong>and is also administered to those resistant to other drugs<\/p>

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In the latest trial, Zyvox was compared to other counterparts vancomycin, oxacillin <\/strong>and dicloxacillin<\/strong>. The FDA<\/strong> said on its website:<\/p>\n

Patients treated with linezolid had a higher chance of death than did patients treated with any comparator antibiotic, and the chance of death was related to the type of organism causing the infection.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As per the study, Patients infected with gram-negative<\/strong> bacteria, both gram-positive and gram-neg<\/strong>ative bacteria, or who were infection-free <\/strong>when they entered the study were prone to greater death risk while those with only gram-positive<\/strong> bacteria infections were out of the danger.<\/p>\n

There is a need for more strict regulations if humanity is to be saved from these backfiring missiles <\/em>called antibiotics.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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