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(MedPage Today) -- Data from a third phase III trial of icatibant (Firazyr), an investigational drug for treating hereditary angioedema (HAE) attacks, were good enough to justify the drug's approval, FDA staff indicated in a briefing document made public before a Thursday advisory committee meeting.

BOSTON (MedPage Today) -- Rates of recurrent Clostridium difficile infection were slashed when patients were treated with the investigational drug fidaxomicin compared with vancomycin, researchers said here.

SAN FRANCISCO (MedPage Today) -- In a head-to-head trial, an investigational drug to combat influenza was equivalent to oseltamivir (Tamiflu), a researcher said here.

SAN FRANCISCO (MedPage Today) -- The rate of venous thromboembolism was halved after hip or knee arthroplasty by the investigational oral anticoagulant rivaroxaban (Xarelto) compared with enoxaparin (Lovenox), said a researcher here.