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Esketamine is the second drug to be approved for treatment-resistant depression by the FDA, following olanzapine/fluoxetine (Symbyax) in 2009. [ 25 ] [ 50 ] Other agents, like the atypical antipsychotics aripiprazole (Abilify) and quetiapine (Seroquel), have been approved for use in the adjunctive therapy of major depressive disorder in people ...
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently approved the nasal spray Spravato for the treatment of major depression in people who have not responded to at least two oral antidepressants.
Esketamine, sold under the brand name Spravato and produced by Janssen Pharmaceuticals, was approved by the FDA in March 2019 for the treatment of Treatment-Resistant Depression (TRD) and suicidal ideation. [8] As of 2022, it is the only psychoplastogen approved in the US for the treatment of a neuropsychiatric disorder. [6]
Among people receiving esketamine, 12.1% (2.5 to 24.4%) encountered some relief at 24 hours, and 10.3% (4.5 to 18.2%) had few or no symptoms. These effects did not persist beyond one week, although a higher dropout rate in some studies means that the benefit duration remains unclear.
At week 32, 49.1% of patients in the esketamine group and 32.9% of the patients in the quetiapine group were in remission. The study had limitations. It compared nasal esketamine to only one other ...
Esketamine is the molecular mirror image of the sedative ketamine, often prescribed off-label for severe cases of depression involving the risk of suicide. FDA Panel Nod for J&J's Esketamine Is ...
Sofosbuvir/velpatasvir, sold under the brand name Epclusa among others, is a fixed-dose combination medication for the treatment of hepatitis C in adults. [2] [5] [6] [7] It combines sofosbuvir and velpatasvir. [2] [5] [6] It is more than 90% effective for hepatitis C genotypes one through six. [2]
The drug is a novel esketamine analogue and conjugate that acts as a prodrug of esketamine. [3] Esketamine, and by extension XW10508, is an NMDA receptor antagonist and indirect AMPA receptor activator. [1] [5] XW10508 is being developed as once-daily orally administered extended-release and immediate-release formulations with misuse resistance ...