X
Pharma Advancement
  • Home
  • Drug Development
    • All
    • Clinical Trials
    • FDA Approvals
    • Research & Development

    Nasal Spray Shows Its Effect Against New COVID Variants

    Mid-Point Regulatory Science Strategy Study Published By EMA

    AADC Inadequacy To Be Handled By A Novel Gene Therapy

    New Drug Explored For Epilepsy Gets $3M Funding In Australia

    Care Access Research Launches Alliance to Provide Infrastructure for COVID-19 Trials

    Faster Clinical Trial Nods Planned By The UK To Curb Issues

    Pharma Drugs Gain From Tardigrade Proteins, Says Research

    Pharma Drugs Gain From Tardigrade Proteins, Says Research

    U.S. FDA Approves DARZALEX Split-Dosing Regimen

    EMA Keeping A Close Watch On Critical Medicine Shortages

    Pathways Laid Down By The CMS For Drug Price Negotiations

    Pathways Laid Down By The CMS For Drug Price Negotiations

    Efficacy Shown On Cystic Fibrosis Patients In 4-Year Study

  • Manufacturing
  • Supply Chain
  • Facilities
  • Health & Nutrition
  • Events
  • Contact Us
No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • Drug Development
    • All
    • Clinical Trials
    • FDA Approvals
    • Research & Development

    Nasal Spray Shows Its Effect Against New COVID Variants

    Mid-Point Regulatory Science Strategy Study Published By EMA

    AADC Inadequacy To Be Handled By A Novel Gene Therapy

    New Drug Explored For Epilepsy Gets $3M Funding In Australia

    Care Access Research Launches Alliance to Provide Infrastructure for COVID-19 Trials

    Faster Clinical Trial Nods Planned By The UK To Curb Issues

    Pharma Drugs Gain From Tardigrade Proteins, Says Research

    Pharma Drugs Gain From Tardigrade Proteins, Says Research

    U.S. FDA Approves DARZALEX Split-Dosing Regimen

    EMA Keeping A Close Watch On Critical Medicine Shortages

    Pathways Laid Down By The CMS For Drug Price Negotiations

    Pathways Laid Down By The CMS For Drug Price Negotiations

    Efficacy Shown On Cystic Fibrosis Patients In 4-Year Study

  • Manufacturing
  • Supply Chain
  • Facilities
  • Health & Nutrition
  • Events
  • Contact Us
No Result
View All Result
Pharma Advancement
No Result
View All Result
Home Drug Development

New Drug Explored For Epilepsy Gets $3M Funding In Australia

Content Team by Content Team
23rd March 2023
in Drug Development, News

More than 150,000 Australians and 50 million people across the world are affected by epilepsy, with almost one-third finding it challenging to control the condition with the anti-seizure medications that are currently in use. The patients with such drug-resistant epilepsy happen to have high rates of disability as well as mental health and thinking challenges, besides having worrisome injury and death rates as well.

It is now the first time that a new drug has been explored, which happens to be potentially the first curative drug for epilepsy in patients who have shown resistance to the current anti-seizure medications.

All the currently available medications that are used to treat people with epilepsy are symptomatic, reducing seizure frequency in less than 70% of the cases, but they have no sustained effect when it comes to subsiding or curing epilepsy or the conditions that are associated with it.

In research that was led by Professor Terry O’Brien and Dr. Pablo Casillas-Espinosa from the Neuroscience division of Monash University, the outcomes reported that sodium selenate can go on to become the first medical disease-modifying treatment when it comes to epilepsy.

Due to the strength of such findings and the promise they hold, the researchers have been awarded a $3 million Medical Research Future Fund grant to begin the clinical trial of sodium selenate as a treatment that happens to be curative in patients who have time and again shown epilepsy that is drug-resistant.

It is important to note that, overall, 124 patients will be enrolled across a minimum of nine sites in Australia over a period of two and a half years.

As per professor O’Brien, epilepsy happens to be one of the most serious but common brain disabling disorders, which is costly for both the individuals as well as their families and even to the national health budget, with an estimated annual economic cost across Australia of $12.3 billion.

Previous Post

Faster Clinical Trial Nods Planned By The UK To Curb Issues

Next Post

AADC Inadequacy To Be Handled By A Novel Gene Therapy

Related Posts

Drug Development

Nasal Spray Shows Its Effect Against New COVID Variants

27th March 2023
FDA Approvals

Mid-Point Regulatory Science Strategy Study Published By EMA

27th March 2023
Drug Development

AADC Inadequacy To Be Handled By A Novel Gene Therapy

24th March 2023
Care Access Research Launches Alliance to Provide Infrastructure for COVID-19 Trials
Clinical Trials

Faster Clinical Trial Nods Planned By The UK To Curb Issues

22nd March 2023
Pharma Drugs Gain From Tardigrade Proteins, Says Research
Drug Development

Pharma Drugs Gain From Tardigrade Proteins, Says Research

22nd March 2023
U.S. FDA Approves DARZALEX Split-Dosing Regimen
Drug Development

EMA Keeping A Close Watch On Critical Medicine Shortages

22nd March 2023
Next Post

AADC Inadequacy To Be Handled By A Novel Gene Therapy

Latest News

Drug Development

Nasal Spray Shows Its Effect Against New COVID Variants

27th March 2023
FDA Approvals

Mid-Point Regulatory Science Strategy Study Published By EMA

27th March 2023
Drug Development

AADC Inadequacy To Be Handled By A Novel Gene Therapy

24th March 2023
Drug Development

New Drug Explored For Epilepsy Gets $3M Funding In Australia

23rd March 2023
Care Access Research Launches Alliance to Provide Infrastructure for COVID-19 Trials
Clinical Trials

Faster Clinical Trial Nods Planned By The UK To Curb Issues

22nd March 2023
Pharma Advancement

About Us

Pharma Advancement is a leading Pharma information centric website. On one side Pharmaadvancement.com has established itself as one of the most efficient and comprehensive source of Pharma information online, dedicated to providing decision makers in all the Pharma industry sectors with reliable, accurate and useful insights into happenings in the Pharma sector.

Qucik Links

  • Drug Development
  • Manufacturing
  • News
  • Events & Conferences
  • Newsletter Archive

Resources

  • Advertise with us
  • Contact Us
  • Download Mediapack

System

  • Search
  • Sitemap
  • RSS Feed

© 2017 Copyright © Valuemediaservices 2017 All rights reserved.

No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • Drug Development
  • Manufacturing
  • Supply Chain
  • Facilities
  • Health & Nutrition
  • Events
  • Contact Us

© 2017 Copyright © Valuemediaservices 2017 All rights reserved.

Login to your account below

Forgotten Password?

Fill the forms bellow to register

All fields are required. Log In

Retrieve your password

Please enter your username or email address to reset your password.

Log In