Talk:Pegvisomant

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Ideal sources for Wikipedia's health content are defined in the guideline Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources (medicine) and are typically review articles. Here are links to possibly useful sources of information about Pegvisomant.

PubMed provides review articles from the past five years (limit to free review articles)
The TRIP database provides clinical publications about evidence-based medicine.
Other potential sources include: Centre for Reviews and Dissemination and CDC

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In the News

This drug is the subject of a current event: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/17/science/17longevity.html —Preceding unsigned comment added by 148.87.67.132 (talk) 01:55, 17 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Origin

John Kopchick discovered Pegvisomant in 1987, and it was approved by the FDA in 2003. This information should be included in this article. Here's an interesting source for that: http://www.ohio.edu/research/communications/royaltymonetization.cfm

 --Dulcimerist (talk) 21:05, 6 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Side Effects

Citations relatively outdated, and incomplete/inaccurate. See more extensive data in Acrostudy ^[1] KFunk740 (talk) 15:36, 19 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25370326

Other Uses

Pegvisomant can potentially inhibit growth of some types of tumors.,^[1]^[2] KFunk740 (talk) 15:46, 19 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

References

General Comments

Overall structure is OK enough, but can be expanded quite a bit. I agree with Dulcimerist, that article needs a section on the drug discovery and linked to John Kopchick's wiki article, along with revenue data for Ohio University. Intro section needs to be clarified. It appears imbalanced toward lack of efficacy, but more recent data is more convincing that it does improve health and quality of life. Sources stated aren't reliable enough. (hopefully this gets a few more points on assignment). KFunk740 (talk) 00:14, 28 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

[1] ttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25370326

[2] ttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27241667

[3] ttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16541323

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