{"id":8530,"date":"2015-08-24T06:43:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-24T14:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.foodanddrugrecall.org\/index.php\/fda-extends-use-of-promacta-in-young-children-with-rare-blood-disorder\/"},"modified":"2015-08-24T06:43:00","modified_gmt":"2015-08-24T14:43:00","slug":"fda-extends-use-of-promacta-in-young-children-with-rare-blood-disorder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.foodanddrugrecall.org\/index.php\/fda-extends-use-of-promacta-in-young-children-with-rare-blood-disorder\/","title":{"rendered":"FDA extends use of Promacta in young children with rare blood disorder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved Promacta (eltrombopag) to treat low blood platelet count in pediatric patients \u2013 ages one year and older \u2013 with a rare blood disorder called chronic immune thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP). Promacta can be used in these children when they have not achieved an appropriate response using other ITP medicines or surgery to remove the spleen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved Promacta (eltrombopag) to treat low blood platelet count in pediatric patients \u2013 ages one year and older \u2013 with a rare blood disorder called chronic immune thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP). Promacta can be used in these children when they have not achieved an appropriate response using other ITP &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foodanddrugrecall.org\/index.php\/fda-extends-use-of-promacta-in-young-children-with-rare-blood-disorder\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">FDA extends use of Promacta in young children with rare blood disorder<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,4,3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drug-reacalls-safety-notices-information","category-drug-safety-information-podcasts","category-food-drug-recalls","category-food-safety-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foodanddrugrecall.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foodanddrugrecall.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foodanddrugrecall.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foodanddrugrecall.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foodanddrugrecall.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.foodanddrugrecall.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foodanddrugrecall.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foodanddrugrecall.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foodanddrugrecall.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}