FDA panel backs septic shock treatment.

IMMUNOGLOBULINS; SEPTIC shock treatment; BACTERIAL disease treatment; CENTOCOR Inc.; UNITED States. Food & Drug Administration; GRAM-negative bacteria; DRUG therapy

MALVERN (Pa.); PENNSYLVANIA; UNITED States

Announces that a committee of outside experts convened by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has endorsed the use of a human antibody, HA-1A, for the treatment of life-threatening bacterial infections. Gram-negative bacteria; Chemotherapy; How HA-1A works; How Centocor, Inc. of Malvern, Pa., makes HA-1A; More.