No problem, said Seretide GSK denied the two best-selling drugs have been stopped - GlaxoSmithKline - the pharmaceutical industries

No problem, said Seretide GSK denied the two best-selling drugs have been stopped - GlaxoSmithKline - the pharmaceutical industries

Media reports yesterday said the global Pharmacy Giant GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) are two drugs by the United States Food And Drug Administration (FDA) halted a drug for the treatment of asthma Seretide (Advair), another is for the treatment of Diabetes Drug Avandia (Avandia). This, GSK, immediately issued a statement on its Web site denying the claim.

SFDA said that at present have not heard

A domestic media report said: "February 19, FDA announced that U.S. doctors not to provide asthmatic GSK's Seretide because Drugs Is likely to cause risk. "

The report also said that the two drugs are currently in China Sell . China's State Food and Drug (SFDA) spokeswoman Yan Jiangying said the country for these drugs will be taken will depend on Adverse reactions Monitoring Centre's report as a benchmark, but are not yet heard any reports.

"Domestic media in the United States FDA's note, reprinted in Chinese interpretation of great misunderstanding." Yesterday, GSK in a statement on its Web site denying that: "FDA is not stopped the asthma medication Seretide (Advair ), but on the U.S. market with long-acting -agonists (LABAs) for asthma therapy manual recommendations for change. These products include GlaxoSmithKline's Seretide and facilities on a firm, a letter from AstraZeneca will be, Novartis Foradil. "" At present, the company is on the FDA to study the proposed changes. affected by GSK and other pharmaceutical composition containing LABAs manufacturers of the FDA within 30 days to respond to proposed changes. "

Company said no problem of domestic Seretide

Learned, Advair is GSK's best-selling drugs, in 2009 brought the drug for up to 7.7 billion in global sales.

However, GSK is the Chinese companies, told reporters that the domestic market, sales of Seretide is a compound, and the FDA need to modify the description of the drugs made irrelevant. "FDA requests LABAs with a single drug preparation asthma control medication to be used in combination, can not be used alone LABAs. GlaxoSmithKline LABAs single drug preparations, applied on a firm that is not listed in China."

As for the reported, GSK another heavy burst of drug Avandia has been "recommended to stop selling" news, GSK statement said: "refused to accept the" New York Times "story version 20, 2010, 2 years reports about Avandia (rosiglitazone) safety conclusions. "adding:" there is no scientific evidence that Avandia increases the risk of cardiovascular ischemic events, or leading to myocardial ischemia. "

2009, the Avandia sales of 1.2 billion U.S. dollars worldwide in 2006 global sales of 3 billion U.S. dollars, a decreased GSK one of the biggest drugs.

2009 fiscal year, Glaxo's revenue grew by 16.5% to 43.9 billion, including U.S. sales fell 13%.

GlaxoSmithKline is headquartered in the United Kingdom, the United States for business operations center, by the time the world's two pharmaceutical giants Glaxo Wellcome and SmithKline Beecham merged in December 2000 set up the company Web site company in the global pharmaceutical market share of about 7%, with 100,000 employees.

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