Depression Eased Quickly With Experimental Drug: Works in Brain Like …
Depression Eased Quickly With Experimental Drug: Works in Brain Like …
Filed under: drug treatment news 2012
12, 2012 — A drug that works through the same brain mechanism as the fast-acting antidepressant ketamine briefly improved treatment-resistant patients' depression symptoms in minutes, with minimal untoward side effects, in a clinical trial conducted …
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Genentech readies for groundbreaking 0M trial of Alzheimer's therapy
Filed under: drug treatment news 2012
"Anti-amyloid drugs have been used before, but they have failed because they have been taken by patients already suffering from dementia–in other words, too late," Dr. Francisco Lopera, a co-manager of the trial based in Colombia, said, as quoted by …
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South Africa: MCC Continues to Deny Critical DR-TB Drug
Filed under: drug treatment news 2012
By Anso Thom, 14 December 2012. South Africa's Medicines Control Council (MCC) is set to continue denying compassionate use or pre-approval access to a TB drug that for many drug resistant patients remain their last hope. If the MCC would agree …
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