"Prioritizing the approval of generic drugs to compete with medicines that face little or no competition is a key part of our efforts to support access and reduce drug costs to patients," said FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, MD.
Naming tasks, which have helped to localize and lateralize a seizure onset region for surgery of focal epilepsy in adults, could now be as useful in children, with the recently reported success of a novel, age-specific assessment.
CBD
Researchers in this study reviewed the main findings of these trials regarding the safety, efficacy, and tolerability of Epidiolex for the treatment of children with Dravet and Lennox-Gastaut syndromes.
A round-up of the top epilepsy research news from the past month.
Disruption of fluid drain rules related to the central nervous system may promote or sustain central nervous system disease, conceivably applicable to epilepsy where extracellular accumulation of macromolecules and metabolic by?products occur at the interstitial and perivascular spaces.
Paper- and online-based externally validated nomograms are effective in predicting naming decline after temporal lobe surgery in patients with epilepsy.
Almost 9 in 10 Health Boards and Trusts in England and Wales do not enable mental health provision within epilepsy clinics.
Measurement of heart rate and movement using a multimodal bracelet sensor may be effective for detecting nocturnal seizures of varying types in patients with epilepsy.
Genetics
A genome-wide analysis of nearly 45,000 people has identified 16 regions of DNA associated with epilepsy, 11 of which are newly identified.
