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Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Pfizer's axitinib shows promise in kidney cancer

Reuters: " Pfizer Inc's experimental drug axitinib has shown promise for treating patients with advanced kidney cancer, slowing the disease for six months or more in some cases, according to a study published on Tuesday."

Back Pain:Medication and Addiction

WebMD: "In the last few years, everyone's heard about the apparent epidemic of prescription drug addiction, especially to narcotic painkillers. We see human-interest stories on the news about regular folks getting hooked on OxyContin or Vicodin. Every few months, it seems, we get another news release from a new celebrity confessing to an addiction. The reports may give you the impression that the lure of these drugs is irresistible, that we're all just a few pills away from addiction."

Light activated cancer drug hope

tehran times : "Scientists say they may be able to make cancer-fighting drugs target tumors far more effectively by using ultra-violet light to activate them. "

Meningitis vaccine commercial irks drug advertising critics

CBCNews: "A new commercial promoting a meningitis vaccine — and showing what might happen if parents don't vaccinate their children — has Canadian critics warning parents to examine the facts and not be swayed by such ads."

Tuesday, October 30, 2007

New Drug Shows Promise For TB Treatment

The Post Chronicle: "A new tuberculosis drug given special status by both U.S. and European regulators might lead to simpler, more effective TB treatment regimens. "..........

Acne Medication May Delay Progress Of Multiple Sclerosis, Canada

medilexicon.com: "A common acne medication that has been available for over 30 years has the potential to delay the progress of multiple sclerosis and if proven effective, will offer an inexpensive option for the treatment of early MS, says the MS Society of Canada. Clinical researchers in Calgary and 13 other Canadian centres will be taking an in-depth look at an oral therapy known as minocycline after initial studies have shown promising results. A new $4 million multi-centre clinical trial involving 200 participants from across Canada is being funded through the MS Society's related MS Scientific Research Foundation. "

Doctor? Or Druggist?

washingtonpost.com: "When Anne Johnson recently visited the Nighttime Pediatrics and Adult Care Too! clinic near her home in Millersville with a case of hives, the doctor told her she needed steroids and several days' worth of antihistamines. But he didn't hand her a prescription. Instead, Johnson, 46, got a dose of each drug on the spot, and the chance to buy the rest on her way out the clinic door. Given the late hour -- 11 p.m. -- Johnson gladly accepted. "

Monday, October 29, 2007

Oxycodone

C-Health: "Early morning and a steady path of people make their way to the counter. Each one stops and takes a sip from a small, plastic medicine cup. In each cup is methadone, a narcotic you also can buy off the street. In Clinic 528 on Dundas Street, the methadone is legal. In here, fire is being used to fight fire, one opioid drug handed out to battle others --plastic cup after plastic cup after plastic cup. "

Lawmaker Probes FDA Decision on Avandia

CNBC.com: "WASHINGTON - A U.S. Senator on Monday asked the Food and Drug Administration to confirm whether its drug safety experts came within one vote of recommending a withdrawal of GlaxoSmithKline's diabetes drug Avandia for safety reasons. Sen. Charles Grassley of Iowa said his staff learned that an internal panel of government safety experts voted 8-7 to keep the blockbuster pill Avandia on the market earlier this month. In a letter to FDA, Grassley questioned why the agency did not disclose the vote, which reportedly occured at a closed-door meeting Oct. 2."

Epix Reports Positive Obesity Drug Data

CNBC.com: "LEXINGTON, Mass. - Epix Pharmaceuticals Inc. Monday reported positive data from an early-stage clinical trial for its drug candidate to treat obesity. Findings from the trial of 21 obese, but otherwise healthy adults, showed those taking the developmental drug PRX-07034 for 28 days lost weight while adults on placebo gained weight. Patients taking 600 milligrams of PRX-07034 twice daily lost an average of 1 pound, while adults on placebo gained 3 pounds. The biopharmaceutical company said the results were statistically significant."

FDA Leukemia drug wins federal approval

MiamiHerald.com: "WASHINGTON -- A second-line drug to treat a life-threatening form of leukemia has won federal approval, the Food and Drug Administration said Monday."

China tightens rules for drug manufacturers |

Reuters.co.uk: " China is tightening application procedures for firms seeking to manufacture drugs, state media reported on Monday, following a rash of scandals over fake medicines and corruption in the industry. The higher threshold to qualify for Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) certification will take effect on January 1."

Wyeth Recalls Several Robitussin Products And Children's Dimetapp Cold & Chest Congestion

RTTNews : "On Monday, Wyeth Consumer Healthcare, a division of Wyeth (WYE) announced that it has initiated a voluntary recall and replacement program for all U.S. retail outlets that sell several Robitussin products and Children's Dimetapp Cold & Chest Congestion. Wyeth stated that the program involves removal of existing products with a dosage cup that does not have a half-teaspoon mark, which is the recommended dose for children age two to under six. "

FDA pushes ban of OTC cold remedies for kids

delawareonline ¦: "Parents agonize with no measure of guilt about their sometimes reliance on over-the-counter medicines to treat colds. Now the federal Food and Drug Administration says these medicines long used to treat children's coughs and colds don't work and shouldn't be used at all. And many pediatricians agree. The American Academy of Pediatrics says parents are being lulled into believing that the cold symptoms are resolved. In fact it's more likely that a sedating effect is masking symptoms that eventually go away just as they would after 'a lot of love and plenty of liquids.' ".........

Addiction and athletes: Who's to blame?

Deseret Morning News : "Addiction to prescription narcotics often starts innocently for an athlete. Following surgery for a damaged knee or shoulder, the doctor prescribes about 10 days worth of painkillers. 'Very few (injuries) require more than a couple of weeks worth of meds,' says University of Utah team doctor Amy Powell. 'Acute injuries calm down quickly.' But for whatever reason, after the .....

Free drugs from Merck

Tulsa World :: "For young women in some of the poorest countries in the world, Merck’s (NYSE: MRK) latest move could be a lifesaver. The company plans to donate enough of its Gardasil vaccine to vaccinate 1 million women against the human papilloma virus, which causes 250,000 deaths each year from cervical cancer. Most of the deaths occur in poorer nations where regular tests aren’t given to detect the cancer early."

Old drug offers new hope against disease

The Boston Globe: "Then a Baltimore researcher following a medical hunch, discovered that a years-old blood pressure medication seemed to reverse the symptoms of his disease, known as Marfan syndrome. Children with severe Marfan - a disorder of the connective tissue, the structural stuff that holds the body together - often have very small, weak muscles and elongated limbs, in addition to damaged aortas."

Sunday, October 28, 2007

Cancer drug delay unacceptable

The New Zealand Herald: "A drug credited with saving lives is facing unacceptable delays for public funding, say a cancer specialist. Mabthera, one of a new generation of smart drugs like Herceptin that targets specific characteristics of cancer cells, is already funded for an aggressive form of lymphoma."

Saturday, October 27, 2007

Seroquel Touted as a Miracle Drug. But is it Greed?

LawyersandSettlements: "It's enough that the atypical antipsychotic drug Seroquel carries a host of potentially serious side effects that pose substantial risks. However, what's worse is an allegation that AstraZeneca, the makers of Seroquel, have been promoting the drug for off-label use for symptoms not approved or sanctioned by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). To that end, AstraZeneca along with two other manufacturers are at the centre of a planned lawsuit, intended to be filed this month by the state of Arkansas, to reclaim monies paid by the state Medicaid authority for prescriptions that were written for off-label purposes."

Sales Are Strong for Glaxo’s Weight-Loss Product

Herald Tribune: "Desperate for a cure for fat, consumers have purchased more than two million starter packages of the new weight-loss product Alli since it was introduced four months ago. Sales of the product, at $60 for each 90-pill package, met expectations of the maker GlaxoSmithKline, the company said yesterday. Alli, an over-the-counter version of the diet drug Xenical from Glaxo, is the first government-approved weight-loss drug available without a prescription. "

Friday, October 26, 2007

FDA: Sanofi-Aventis failed to stop abuses in study of antibiotic

C-Health: "U.S. government investigators say drug maker Sanofi-Aventis ignored misconduct by doctors who helped test an antibiotic that was later linked to several deaths. The Food and Drug Administration sent a letter to Sanofi on Oct. 23, detailing problems with a 1,800-patient study of Ketek in 2002. The U.S. Congress has been investigating FDA's approval of the drug since last year after several users developed serious liver problems and died. "

Steroids Prevented Lung Damage After 9/11

MedPage Today: "A prophylactic course of inhaled corticosteroids may protect the lungs of disaster workers inadvertently exposed to airborne dust particles, a researcher said here. Firefighters in New York who took inhaled budesonide starting two weeks after the World Trade Center attacks had better lung function and quality of life a year and a half later than did those who did not take the drug, according to David Prezant, M.D., of the New York fire department and Montefiore Medical Center. "

NHS patients denied arthritis drug

icNorthLondonOnline -: "A drug said to ease an 'aggressive' form of arthritis will not be approved for use on the NHS, the health watchdog has announced. The National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) has said it will not reconsider its recommendation in August not to prescribe abatacept (known as Orencia) for the treatment of moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis."

New HIV drug shows great promise

cooltech.iafrica.com : "A prototype drug, tested on lab-dish samples of the AIDS virus, has shown great promise in attacking HIV from an unprecedented direction, French researchers reported on Friday. The drug inhibits the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) at a key point — when it uses the hijacked machinery of an infected immune cell to reassemble its genetic code."

Thursday, October 25, 2007

AIDS vaccine may raise infection risk

MSNBC.com: "More than 3,000 people who volunteered to receive an experimental AIDS vaccine are being told the shot may raise the risk of infection. Researchers stress that they do not yet have enough information to say whether those who got the shot are more susceptible to infection with HIV. But they said initial information from the trial, which was stopped suddenly last month, is worrisome. "

News : FDA: Safety board wants Cdn-led drug trial stopped - Heart Health - C-Health: " Drug giant Bayer Inc. confirmed Thursday that a large Canadian-led trial studying its drug Trasylol (aprotinin) has been halted because of concerns the drug increased the risk of death among people who received it. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration also posted a statement on the observed risk from the study, known as the BART trial, saying the agency will consider the new evidence as part of its ongoing deliberations on whether the drug should be removed from the market or have additional warnings on its label. "

Drug Co. Funded Asthma Drug Studies Positive

MedicineNet.com: "Drug company-funded studies of asthma drugs called inhaled corticosteroids are less likely to find adverse effects than studies that were paid for by other sources, Spanish researchers say.

Nicotine Helps Overcome Symptoms of Parkinson's Disease

medheadlines.com : "Serious consequence of Parkinson's disease therapy may be reduced by nicotine treatment. Dyskinesia or involuntary movement, is a frequent side-effect of drugs used to treat Parkinson's disease, such as Levodopa. Results of a research announced by Parkinson's Institute indicate that intermittent nicotine therapy decreases incidence of drug-induced dyskinesia by up to 50% in individuals suffering from Parkinson's disease."

FDA adds warning to Cephalon's Provigil sleep drug

Reuters: "A warning is being added to Cephalon Inc's drug Provigil for excessive sleepiness because of the risk of serious skin rash and psychiatric symptoms, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Wednesday. Provigil is used to treat adults with narcolepsy and obstructive sleep apnea who have difficulty staying awake. Provigil is one of Cephalon's biggest-selling products with global sales of $415 million in the first half of 2007."

CDC panel gives FluMist boost

delawareonline : "The CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices on Wednesday called for expanded use of FluMist among children, widening its recommendation to include youngsters ages 2 to 5 years old who don't have a history of asthma or wheezing. The panel, whose recommendations are widely heeded by doctors, had already recommended the nasal spray vaccine, which contains a live but weakened strain of the flu virus, as a needle-free alternative for healthy children and adults from ages 5 to 49. Young children are susceptible "

Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Too much cannabis 'worsens pain'

BBC NEWS : "Smoking large amounts of cannabis for therapeutic reasons may increase rather than reduce pain, a US study suggests. The pain-relieving qualities of cannabis have long been hailed, and several countries have made it available for medicinal purposes. "

Sleep Drugs Found Only Mildly Effective, but Wildly Popular

New York Times: "Your dreams miss you. American consumers spend $4.5 billion a year for sleep medications. In the commercial, the dreams involve Abraham Lincoln, a beaver and a deep-sea diver. Not the stuff most dreams are made of. But if the unusual pitch makes you want to try Rozerem, consider that it costs about $3.50 a pill; gets you to sleep 7 to 16 minutes faster than a placebo, or fake pill; and increases total sleep time 11 to 19 minutes, according to an analysis last year. "

Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Smokers told not to drive while using Champix

Telegraph: "Smokers have been warned not to drive while taking a drug designed to help them quit because it could make them sleepy or dizzy at the wheel. The medicines watchdog issued the guidance after two patients had accidents while driving when taking the drug Champix, which was approved for use on the NHS earlier this year.

Special report: Prescription medicines

Independent Online Edition > Health: "Thousands of patients are dying each year as a result of side effects from pills prescribed by GPs and hospital doctors. And while the number of deaths from suspected adverse reactions to prescription drugs has more than doubled in the past 10 years to 973 last year, medical experts warn that as few as one in 10 deaths and other serious complications are being reported."

Zithromax Liver Failure Zithromax Side Effects

newsinferno.com: "Since it was first approved in 1992, Zithromax has become a popular antibiotic, especially for treating ailments like ear infections in children. That is because Zithromax can deliver continual levels of the antibiotic to infected areas. This means patients can take just one pill a day for as few as 3 days, rather than the 10 day, 3-pill-a-day regimen common with most other oral antibiotics. But because Zithromax is so potent, and because it is eliminated from the body mostly through the liver, it has the potential to cause serious liver damage."

Thousands dying of pills’ side-effects

Gulf Times : " Thousands of patients are dying each year as a result of side effects from pills prescribed by GPs and hospital doctors. And while the number of deaths from suspected adverse reactions to prescription drugs has more than doubled in the past 10 years to 973 last year, medical experts warn that as few as one in 10 deaths and other serious complications are being reported."

Monday, October 22, 2007

India's Ranbaxy gets Canada nod for generic drug

Reuters: "India's Ranbaxy Laboratories (RANB.BO: Quote, Profile, Research), has obtained approval to market Ran-Lisinopril in Canada, the drug maker said on Monday. A company spokesman said Ran-Lisinopril was a branded generic generic drug used to treat hypertension. "

Sunday, October 21, 2007

Weak Sales Prompt Pfizer to Cancel Diabetes Drug

New York Times: "Pfizer said yesterday that it would stop selling Exubera, its inhaled insulin, less than two years after introducing the drug. Despite Pfizer’s heavy promotion, Exubera’s sales were minuscule, with prescriptions amounting to less than 1 percent of the insulin market. Skip to next paragraph John Sommers II/Reuters A diabetes patient, Daniel Barrow, uses an Exubera inhaler. Some patients found the device cumbersome and inconvenient.

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Children suffer for want of ‘miracle’ drugs

The Times - Article: "Genetically engineered drugs that revolutionised arthritis treatment almost 10 years ago are still out of reach of many South Africans who urgently need them, particularly children at risk of deformity. These smart medicines work by blocking the action of specific proteins in the body — called cytokines — which are involved in triggering inflammation. This class of drugs, known as “biologics”, can cure or dramatically relieve arthritis in patients resistant to conventional therapies."

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Biologics for rheumatoid arthritis treatment - WebMD
Learn about biologics, a newer type of drug for rheumatoid arthritis treatment. These medications include Enbrel, Humira, and Remicade.www.webmd.com/rheumatoid-arthritis/guide/biologics

Hearing Loss Now Added to Possible Side-effects of Viagra: "How much can one pay for a satisfactory sex life? Heart attack, vision loss and now hearing loss too. Yes that is what the Viagra class of drugs can do to you, the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is waning. Since 1996, the FDA has received 29 reports of people on the prescriptions suffering sudden hearing loss. Warnings will now be added to Viagra, Cialis, Levitra and Revatio, which is a drug for pulmonary hypertension, which contains the same ingredient as Viagra. "

Saturday, October 20, 2007

Alzheimer's drug side effects can be reduced

healthcentral.com: "Although rivastigmine improves cognitive symptoms in patients with Alzheimer's disease whether it is given twice or three times a day, the three times a day dosing schedule tends to produce fewer side effects and thus increase tolerability, researchers report in the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry."

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MedlinePlus Drug Information: Rivastigmine
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Seniors urged to stock up prescription drugs

The Coloradoan .: "Seniors should be thinking about how a pandemic flu event could slow or keep them from getting vital prescriptions, the county's top health official said this week. 'I'm worried about prescription drugs for this age group,' Dr. Adrienne LeBailly, director of the Larimer County Department of Public Health and Environment, said Thursday at an American Association of Retired People conference at the Fort Collins Senior Center."

Panel: Kids Shouldn't Use Cold Medicines

ABC News:: "The medicines long used by parents to treat their children's coughs and colds don't work and shouldn't be used in those younger than 6, federal health advisers recommended Friday. The over-the-counter medicines should be studied further, even after decades in which children have received billions of doses a year, the outside experts told the Food and Drug Administration. The FDA isn't required to follow the advice of its panels of outside experts but does so most of the time."

Friday, October 19, 2007

Breast cancer survivors get a leg up with new drugs

KCCommunityNews.com: "With new advancements in breast cancer technology such as digital mammograms and MRI images, it's no surprise that breast cancer death rates are down. But pharmaceutical drugs are making advancements in the field of breast cancer as well."


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Study of Tamoxifen and Raloxifene (STAR) Trial - National Cancer ...
A collection of material about the Study of Tamoxifen and Raloxifene, or STAR trial, one of the largest breast cancer prevention studies ever.www.cancer.gov/star

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Doctors say kids' cold remedies don't work

Los Angeles Times: "-- Pediatricians urged U.S. regulators to restrict over-the-counter cold medicines for children, saying the remedies used for decades don't work and may be dangerous. Members of the American Academy of Pediatricians asked a panel of Food and Drug Administration advisors Thursday to recommend that the agency ban marketing cold medicines for children younger than 6. Products such as Wyeth's Dimetapp and Novartis AG's Triaminic haven't been shown to work on this age group and may be hazardous, doctors said."

Thursday, October 18, 2007

Super ear infection resists approved drugs

Canada.com : "A new super bug that causes acute ear infections in children has emerged that is immune to all antibiotics currently approved for children. The strain of highly drug-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae requires aggressive therapy, either surgery or an antibiotic not approved for children that has caused joint damage in young animals. So far, the bug appears to be occurring in only a very small proportion of children. But there is concern the multi-drug resistant organism could spread and cause other, more serious problems, including pneumonia, blood stream infections or meningitis."

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Prevnar(vaccine)
Drugs and Treatments - Prevnar IM - Patient Handout from WebMD
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levofloxacin (antibiotic)
MedlinePlus Drug Information: Levofloxacin Oral
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fluoroquinolones (antibiotics)
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Diabetes Drug Wins New Uses

WSJ.com: "The Food and Drug Administration approved Merck & Co.'s diabetes drug Januvia for use in new combinations with other medicines, but the company also added information to the drug's label about reports of serious allergic reactions among some who have taken it. Patients' reactions have included constricted airways, swelling around the lips and a potentially fatal skin condition called Stevens-Johnson syndrome."

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Januvia
Patient Information Sheet: Sitagliptin Phosphate (marketed as Januvia)
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Wednesday, October 17, 2007

Novo says no signs liraglutide causes pancreatitis

Reuters: "the world's biggest maker of insulin, said on Wednesday it had seen no increased risk of acute pancreatitis so far in its studies of its Phase III drug candidate liraglutide."

Deaths from drug-resistant bacteria top those from AIDS

chicagotribune.com: "Nearly 19,000 Americans died in 2005 of invasive infections caused by drug-resistant staphylococcus bacteria -- more than were killed by AIDS, according to a new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association."

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More U.S. Deaths From MRSA Than AIDS
WebMD It appears that more people in the U.S. now die from the mostly hospital-acquired staph infection MRSA than from AIDS, according to a new report from the CDC.
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) was responsible for an estimated 94,000 life-threatening infections and 18,650 deaths in 2005, CDC researchers report in the Oct. 17 issue of The Journal of the American Medical Association.

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Tuesday, October 16, 2007

CTI Plans Zevalin s Revival; Satraplatin Wait Soon Over

BioWorld Today: "Remember Zevalin? The once-trumpeted radioactive immune therapy for non-Hodgkin s lymphoma from IDEC Pharmaceuticals Inc. (now Biogen Idec Inc.) won approval in February 2002. Hopes ran high, with sales projections in the $500 million range, but performance fell short. Biogen Idec reported $18 million in worldwide sales last year, $16.4 million of that amount in the U.S."


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How can I get rid of this headache?

the Daily Mail: "There's that age-old fear with headaches - it's probably nothing, you tell yourself, but you walk into the doctor's surgery convinced that it's actually a brain tumour. "

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MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia: Headache
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New drug approved in Canada to treat HIV, first in 10 years

The Canadian Press: "Health Canada has approved the first drug in the first new class of HIV medications to be brought to market in Canada in a decade. Celsentri - the brand name for the drug maraviroc - is the first of a class of drugs called CCR5 antagonists to gain regulatory approval. The drug, made by Pfizer Canada Inc., blocks entry of HIV into the immune system's T cells, reducing the level of the virus in the body. It is approved for use only in people who have already been on other HIV medications; it is not licensed for people who are just starting anti-retroviral drug therapy."

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Maraviroc (Selzentry, Celsentri) - The Body
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FDA Panel Recommends Approval of New AIDS Drug - healthfinder.gov
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What's New at The Body, October 10, 2007
$10585, for instance, is the cost of just a single year of treatment with Selzentry (maraviroc, Celsentri), the first-in-class CCR5 inhibitor that was ...thebody.com/content/art43503.html

Monday, October 15, 2007

Morphine Safe to Use While Driving, Researchers Report

Associated Content: "According to the Department of Health and Human Services news release, researchers out of Rush University Medical Center in Chicago have recently revealed that the effects of using morphine do not impair your senses while driving. "

Anti-Convulsant Aids Knee-Replacement Patients

U.S.News: "The anti-convulsant drug pregabalin, given before and after surgery, helped reduce pain and promote mobility in patients having total knee replacement. That study finding was presented Sunday at the annual meeting of the American Society of Anesthesiologists, in San Francisco."

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