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New adjunctive antidepressant elevates serotonin in Phase I trial

Drug Discovery World

Evecxia Therapeutics has reported favourable safety, tolerability, pharmacokinetic, and pharmacodynamic data from a Phase I trial of EVX-101 in healthy volunteers treated with escitalopram. The post New adjunctive antidepressant elevates serotonin in Phase I trial appeared first on Drug Discovery World (DDW).

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Drug repurposing: The benefits, risks and what we learned from Covid-19

Drug Discovery World

Diana Spencer summarises the key messages from the ‘Drug Repurposing: Challenges and Opportunities’ Symposium held at the 19th World Congress of Basic & Clinical Pharmacology (WCP) 2023. He gave the example of GLP-1 receptor agonist Ozempic, a diabetes treatment, which was successfully repurposed for weight loss as Wegovy.

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Analysis Life Sciences Thank You FDA’s nonprescription advisors find no efficacy for phenylephrine

Agency IQ

Background on oral phenylephrine as a nonprescription nasal decongestant Phenylephrine is an alpha-1 adrenergic agonist that is approved as a nonprescription oral treatment for temporary relief of nasal congestion , sinus congestion and pressure. The committee also made recommendations regarding pharmacokinetic and safety assessments.

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Altasciences Completes Successful Phase I Trial of Ischemix’ Novel Compound for Treatment of Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)

Alta Sciences

Altasciences Completes Successful Phase I Trial of Ischemix’ Novel Compound for Treatment of Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) pmjackson Mon, 08/28/2023 - 14:04 Laval, Québec, August 30, 2023 – Altasciences is pleased to have completed a Phase I trial on Ischemix, Inc.’s The trial was performed at Altasciences’ clinical facility in Montréal.

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Janssen Presents Results from Phase 3 ACIS

The Pharma Data

No statistically significant difference was demonstrated for secondary endpoints including overall survival (OS), time to initiation of cytotoxic chemotherapy, chronic opioid use, and pain progression between treatment arms. Grade 3/4 treatment emergent adverse events (TEAEs) were reported in 63.3 percent in the control arm.

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Analysis Life Sciences Thank You Workshop addresses oncology dose optimization across full span of development

Agency IQ

As the name implies, the MTD seeks to find the highest dose of a treatment that can both be tolerated and treat the cancer. Additionally, this approach is generally no longer applicable to new treatments that are more targeted in their effects, such as immunotherapies and targeted small molecule therapies.

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