Below is a press release from Intermune, the company that makes Pirfenidone. They have essentially reviewed the various clinical trials going on, and decided that Pirfenidone is safe and well tolerated. That would pretty much go along with what we've observed in the HPS community as well. We have a few folks that have been on the drug since the late 90s and continue to do well. Of course, as a journalist, I do have to say consider the source - but at the same time, as someone in a Pirfenidone trial, it's good to know. Results of Comprehensive Safety Analysis of pirfenidone In IPF Patients Presented At European Respiratory Meeting - Analysis shows safety and tolerability of pirfenidone across four clinical trials - VIENNA, Sept. 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- InterMune, Inc. (Nasdaq: ITMN ) today announced that the results of a comprehensive review of safety data from four clinical studies were presented at the 2009 European Respiratory Society Annual Congress in Vienna, Austria...
By the time we'd finished the HPS board meeting, the HPS Conference introduction meeting, the Puerto Rico meeting and the Puerto Rico board meeting, we were all a little slap happy. Donna had this funny CD she kept playing throughout the conference with songs about meetings - so she broke out the CD and made us all dance. The woman in the red is Hilda, who has been vital to our efforts in Puerto Rico. She's a retired nurse from the NIH who just can't get enough of us - grin! Really, she's amazingly deticated to us. The woman in the white was a doctor that came from Puerto Rico to learn more about HPS.
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