Today the company said its experimental drug to treat major depressive disorder (MDD) had failed to significantly reduce the severity of the condition in a mid-stage study.
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The US Food and Drug Administration received more than 250 reports of patients experiencing suicidal thoughts or behaviors while taking Ozempic or similar medicines since 2010, Reuters found in an examination of the FDA’s adverse-event database.
Navacaprant showed statistically significant and clinically meaningful improvements along scales that measure symptoms of depression and anhedonia – a feature of MDD that impairs the capacity to experience or anticipate pleasure – in patients, Neumora said.
The FDA nod “represents an important first step that will one day allow our technology to help many people,” Neuralink said in a tweet. It did not elaborate on the aims of the study, saying only that it was not recruiting yet and more details would be available soon.
Developers of psychedelics-based therapies say the industry is poised to explode, with several reporting strong clinical trial results and the FDA granting breakthrough status for two hallucinogenic drugs.
Intra-Cellular Therapies’ Caplyta (lumateperone) met its primary endpoint in its Phase III trial, easing the burden of depressive episodes in patients with major depressive disorder (MDD) or bipolar depression with mixed features.
The initiative taps global social influencers and shares resources, so young men can better understand the benefits of therapy.
Sensorium Therapeutics, which closed a $30 million Series A Tuesday, is embracing the complexity of neuropsychiatric diseases with nature-inspired psychoactive medicines.
On the heels of the upcoming major digital therapeutics show in Boston (DTx East), EVERSANA has announced a partnership with Warsaw, Poland-based Prosoma Digital Therapeutics. Together, they will work together to bring the company’s Living Well digital therapy to the U.S. to improve the quality of life and reduce stress, anxiety, and depression symptoms for patients related to a cancer diagnosis.
There is no authoritative data on the frequency of suicides among sufferers. Several scientists from organizations including the U.S. National Institutes of Health and Britain’s data-collection agency are beginning to study a potential link following evidence of increased cases of depression and suicidal thoughts among people with long COVID, as well as a growing number of known deaths.