China Sky One Medical has obtained production approval from the Chinese State Food and Drug Administration for calcium folinate injection. Another two new traditional Chinese medicines, Paeonol gel and Mei Lu gel, were approved by SFDA to enter into clinical trials. All three are prescription drugs.
Calcium folinateis a solution for injection intended as an auxiliary therapy for sprue (a disease of the small intestine), malnutrition, pregnancy- or infancy-related megaloblastic anemia, and colonic and rectal cancer. It will be available to consumers around June of 2009.
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