University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center
Keep checking back for updates:
Last update 11/18/2009
> New! We will only be able to take checks or Money Orders for DVD sales from now on. The DVD contains almost all of the presentations -- Three and a half days worth -- plus pdfs of the slides, poster abstracts, and more. Order yours here: Venom DVD Order Form Web 3.pdf
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> New! We're working on the next Venom Week and hope to have some announcements shortly after the New Year. I'm planning on updating this website monthly. Keep checking back.
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> From the FDA: The expiration date of lot 4030026 of Wyeth North American Coral Snake Antivenin (Micrurus fulvius) (Equine) has been extended by a year to 31 October 2010. An announcement to this effect has been made on the FDA website at http://www.fda.gov/BiologicsBloodVaccines/SafetyAvailability/ucm155092.htm
To preclude inadvertent disposal of this product, please share this information with your colleagues.
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> The FDA Blood Products Advisory Committee voted unanimously on 7/20/09 to recommend that the FDA accept animal evidence of efficacy, along with volunteer human PK and safety studies, for the initial licensure of a coral snake antivenom. The FDA has to formally accept this recommendation, and an existing manufacturer of a coral snake antivenom has to submit an Investigational New Drug Application, but it means it is more likely that we will eventually have a replacement antivenom for the current FDA-approved product, which has been out of production for several years and is likely to start running out this coming year. I will update this site with news of interest as it occurs.
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> Abstracts from Venom Week 2009 have been formally accepted for publication and are in press in the Journal of Medical Toxicology. They are scheduled to be published in Volume 6 (2010).
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> Venom Week 4 is in the planning phase. Current top candidate locations are Santa Fe, Scottsdale, and New Orleans. If you have opinions or other suggestions, please feel free to email me at sseifert@salud.unm.edu. --Steve
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> I would like to thank all who helped organize, participated in, or supported Venom Week 2009. It was a rousing success by all measures.
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Questions or comments? Email Steven A. Seifert, MD, Symposium Organizer:
sseifert@salud.unm.edu
This symposium has previously been held as "Snakebites in the New Millennium 2005," Omaha, NE; and "Venom Week 2007," Tucson, AZ.