[afro-nets] Health Affairs--BiDil: The Debate Continues

["Kathleen Ford" <kford@projecthope.org>]

Health Affairs--BiDil: The Debate Continues
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Puckrein: BiDil Will Help Fight Heart Failure among African Americans

The Food and Drug Administration acted correctly when it approved BiDil to treat congestive heart failure in self-described African Americans, the first time the agency had ever approved any medication for a race-specific indication, Gary Puckrein writes in a Web-Exclusive article published today on the Health Affairs Web site.

"BiDil provides African Americans with an effective new weapon against heart failure," said Puckrein, executive director of the National Minority Health Month Foundation. "Existing heart failure medications don't work as well for African Americans as they do for members of other racial and ethnic groups, and heart failure hits the African American community disproportionately hard." 

You can read Puckrein's article at
http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/content/abstract/hlthaff.25.w368 and a Perspective by Pamela Sankar and Jonathan Kahn at http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/content/abstract/hlthaff.25.w375

Health Affairs is pleased to make both articles freely accessible to listserv members for two weeks.

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Kathleen Ford
mailto:kford@projecthope.org