FDA Issues Boxed Warning for Hydroxyurea & Neutropenia May Occur after Rituximab Treatments

Michele B. Kaufman, PharmD, CGP, RPh, is a freelance medical writer based in New York City and a pharmacist at New York Presbyterian Lower Manhattan Hospital.

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