New York-based Anavex Life Sciences announced positive topline results from the company’s Phase III AVATAR trial of Anavex 2-73 (blarcamesione) in adult female patients with Rett syndrome.

Fewer Americans are dying from the most common types of cancer, especially lung, showed a report published in The Journal of the National Cancer Institute on July 8.

Europe’s oldest person – French nun Sister Andre – survived Covid-19 and will celebrate her 117th birthday, her caregivers said.

Acadia Pharmaceuticals Inc. and Neuren Pharmaceuticals Limited announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration granted Rare Pediatric Disease designation to trofinetide for the treatment of Rett syndrome, a serious and rare neurological disorder.