US Food and Drug Administration
Rezulin approval
packages
Approval
package APPLICATION NUMBER: 020720/S002,S003,S005. TRADE
NAME: Rezulin 200 mg and 400 mg Tablets. GENERIC NAME: Troglitazone.
SPONSOR: Parke Davis Pharmaceutical Research.
Approval date: 4 August 1997.
Rezulin
(Troglitazone tablets). Company: Parke-Davis Pharmaceutical
Research. Application No: 020720/ S12, S14. Indications: Use of
Rezulin in combination with metformin and sulfonylurea in patients
with type 2 diabetes.
Approval date: 16 September 1999.
Meetings
Endocrinologic and Metabolic Drugs Advisory Committee. (1996)
Meeting
no #65. Troglitazone for diabetes mellitus.
Bethesda, MD: United States. Department of Health and Human Services.
Food and Drug Administration. Endocrinologic and Metabolic Drugs
Advisory Committee, 11 December.
Endocrinologic and Metabolic Drugs Advisory Committee. (1999)
Bethesda, MD: United States. Department of Health and Human Services.
Food and Drug Administration. Endocrinologic and Metabolic Drugs
Advisory Committee, 26 March.
Meeting
no #72 (part 1)
Meeting
no #72 (part 2)
Meeting
no #72 (part 3)
Meeting
no #72 (part 4)
Meeting
no #72 (part 5)
Slides
presented at the meeting
Endocrinologic and Metabolic Drugs Advisory Committee. (2000)
Meeting no #74.
Bethesda, MD: United States. Department of Health and Human Services.
Food and Drug Administration. Endocrinologic and Metabolic Drugs
Advisory Committee, 17 May.
Lumpkin, Murray. (2000)
A presentation of the data and rationale for the regulatory action
regarding the withdrawal from the U.S. marker of Rezulin (troglitazone,
Parke-Davis Pharmaceutical Research, a division of Warner-Lambert)
for the treatment of type 2 diabetes. Endocrinologic and Metabolic
Drugs Advisory Committee, May 19, 2000. Slides;
Slides
(Powerpoint).
Storey, Donna (2002)
Evidence
presented at the Food and Drug Administration., Center for Drug
Evaluation and Research, Drug Safety and Management Advisory Committee
Meeting, Wednesday 21 July 2002.
Talk papers
and press releases
FDA
approves Rezulin for diabetes patients poorly controlled on insulin
therapy. 30 January 1997.
New
type II diabetes drug may reduce insulin needs. FDA Consumer
Magazine April 1997.
Rezulin
labeling changes. 3 November 1997.
Patient
testing and labeling strengthened for Rezulin. 1 December
1997.
Patient
testing, labelling strengthened for diabetes drug. News along
the pike December 1997; 3(12):6.
FDA
approves rosiglitazone to treat type II diabetes. 26 May 1999.
New
labelling and use changes for Rezulin. 16 June 1999.
FDA
Approves pioglitazone to treat Type 2 diabetes. 16 July 1999.
Rezulin
to be withdrawn from the market. HHS News 2000.
FDA
to schedule public discussion of Rezulin. 24 March 2000.
Labelling changes
Summary
of safety-related drug labelling changes approved by FDA, April
1997.
Summary
of safety-related drug labelling changes approved by FDA, August
1997.
Summary
of safety-related drug labelling changes approved by FDA, November
1997.
Summary
of safety-related drug labelling changes approved by the FDA,
December 1997.
Summary
of safety-related drug labelling changes approved by the FDA,
July 1998.
Summary
of safety-related drug labelling changes approved by the FDA,
June 1999.
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Correspondence
Askine, Mark W. (Regulatory Review Officer, Division of Drug
Marketing, Advertising and Communications) (1997).
Correspondence
to James A Parker, Director, Advertisor and Labelling, Worldwide
Regulatory Affairs, Parke-Davis Pharmaceutical Research, 24 February.
Thomson, Diane E. (Associate Commissioner for Legislative Affairs).
(1999)
Response
to letter from Henry Waxman (18 December 1998), regarding the
safety of Rezulin, 25 February.
Jenkins, John K. (Director, Office of Drug Evaluation II, Centre
for Drug Evaluation and Research, FDA). (1999)
Correspondence
to Mary E Taylor, Director, Worldwide Regulatory Affairs Parke-Davis
Pharmaceutical research, 17 June.
Buse, John B. (Associate Professor of Medicine, University of
North Carolina and Director of the Diabetes Care Center). (2000)
Letter to Dr Jane Henney (Commissioner of the FDA) regarding the
"Citizen"s petition to immediately require class labelling for
the diabetes drugs troglitazone (Rezulin), rosiglitazone (Avandia)
and pioglitazone (Actos).", 15 March.
U.S. National Institutes of Health
Varmus, Henry (Director NIH). (1998)
Letter
to Henry Waxman, 29 December 1998, regarding the relationship
of Dr Richard Eastman of the National Institute of Diabetes and
Digestive and Kidney Diseases with the pharmaceutical company
Warner Lambert. Bethesda, MD: NIH, 29 December 1998.
Varmus, Henry (Director NIH). (1999)
Letter
to Henry Waxman, 19 February 1999, responding to Question
5 in Henry Waxman's letter of 7 December 1998.
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U.S. National Institute
of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDKD)
USNIDDKD (1996)
National
Institutes of Health asks the question... can Type 2 diabetes
be prevented? Bethesda: USNIDDK, 10 June.
USNIDDK (1998)
NIDDK
discontinues troglitazone arm of "Diabetes Prevention Program"
clinical trial. Bethesda: USNIDDK, 4 June.
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U.S. NIH. National Diabetes
Education Program
US. NIH. National Diabetes Education Program. (2004)
Diabetes
Prevention Program Fact Sheet.
Bethesda, Md: NDEP.
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U.S. Patent Office
U.S.
Patent 4,572,912
Yoshioka, Takao (Hiromachi, JP); Kitazawa, Eiici (Hiromachi, JP);
Kurumada, Tomoyuki (Hiromachi, JP); Yamazaki, Mitsuo (Hiromachi,
JP); Hasegawa, Kazou (Hiromachi, JP). Thiazolidine derivatives,
their preparation and compositions containing them. Assignee:
Sankyo Company Limited (Tokyo, JP). Appl. No.: 644996, 28 August
1984.
U.S.
Patent 5,478,852
Olefsky, Jerrold (Solano Beach, CA); Antonucci, Tammy (Mequon,
WI); Lockwood, Dean (Ann Arbor, MI); Norris, Rebecca (Kewadin,
MI). Novel methods of using thiazolidinone derivatives and related
antihyperglycemic agents to treat populations experiencing impaired
glucose intolerance in order to prevent or delay the onset of
noninsulin-dependent diabetes mellitus. Assignee: Sankyo Company,
Limited (Tokyo, JP) Appl. No.: 293899, 23 August 1994.
U.S.
Patent 5,708,012
Olefsky, Jerrold M. (Solano Beach, CA). The use of thiazolidinedione
derivatives and related antihyperglycemic agents in the treatment
of insulin resistant subjects with normal glucose tolerance in
order to prevent or delay the onset of noninsulin-dependent mellitus.
Assignee: Sankyo Company, Limited (Tokyo, JP)
Appl No.: 431266, 28 April 1995.
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UK Committee on Safety of Medicines
Troglitazone
(Romozin) withdrawn
Current Problems in Pharmacovigilance, 1997, 23, p. 13.
Sub-Committee
on Pharmacovigilance, 29 September 1998.
Summary
of the meeting of the Sub-Committee on Pharmacovigilance held
on 23 February 1999.
Risk
benefit assessment of troglitazone. Paper presented at the Committee
on Safety of Medicines meeting 25 February 1999. SCOP 99/1st meeting;
CSM 99/4th meeting.
Summary
of the meeting of the Sub-Committee on Pharmacovigilance held
on 27 April 1999
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