{"id":8925,"date":"2016-03-30T08:10:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-30T16:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.foodanddrugrecall.org\/index.php\/fda-approves-first-treatment-for-rare-disease-in-patients-who-receive-stem-cell-transplant-from-blood-or-bone-marrow\/"},"modified":"2016-03-30T08:10:00","modified_gmt":"2016-03-30T16:10:00","slug":"fda-approves-first-treatment-for-rare-disease-in-patients-who-receive-stem-cell-transplant-from-blood-or-bone-marrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.foodanddrugrecall.org\/index.php\/fda-approves-first-treatment-for-rare-disease-in-patients-who-receive-stem-cell-transplant-from-blood-or-bone-marrow\/","title":{"rendered":"FDA approves first treatment for rare disease in patients who receive stem cell transplant from blood or bone marrow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved Defitelio (defibrotide sodium) to treat adults and children who develop hepatic veno-occlusive disease (VOD) with additional kidney or lung abnormalities after they receive a stem cell transplant from blood or bone marrow called hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT). This is the first FDA-approved therapy for treatment of severe hepatic VOD, a rare and life-threatening liver condition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved Defitelio (defibrotide sodium) to treat adults and children who develop hepatic veno-occlusive disease (VOD) with additional kidney or lung abnormalities after they receive a stem cell transplant from blood or bone marrow called hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT). This is the first FDA-approved therapy for treatment of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foodanddrugrecall.org\/index.php\/fda-approves-first-treatment-for-rare-disease-in-patients-who-receive-stem-cell-transplant-from-blood-or-bone-marrow\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">FDA approves first treatment for rare disease in patients who receive stem cell transplant from blood or bone marrow<\/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-8925","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\/8925","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=8925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.foodanddrugrecall.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foodanddrugrecall.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foodanddrugrecall.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foodanddrugrecall.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}