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Not a long time ago this year, Biogen announced the halting of Phase III clinical trials, EMERGE and ENAGE, of its most looked upon drug aducanumab under simulations for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease called futility analysis. The drug was designed to help patients struggling with mild cognitive impairmen...

EicOsis has received USD 15Million grant from the National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA) to fund the clinical trials of non-opioid pain therapy. NIDA, with an aim to supplement NIH’s initiative Helping to End Addiction Long-Term (HEAL Initiative), has awarded the grant to the company. Deaths due to drug ov...

The World Health Organization’s disability rating for migraine ranks it as the 19th most common reason for disability. According to the Migraine Trust Organization, Migraine is ranked as the 7th most disabling disease in the world (a cause for a loss of 2.9% of all years of life lost to disability/YLDs). The ...

World Alzheimer’s Day World Alzheimer’s Day takes place on 21 September of every year. World Alzheimer's Day is a campaign to raise awareness and highlight issues faced by people those who are affected by dementia. The exact cause of Alzheimer's disease is not known, although several things are considered to ...

Failure in suppressing epilepsy; steps away from seizure-freedom Epilepsy, a central nervous system disorder that hinders the normal functioning of the brain, and leads to abnormality and loss of awareness. It affects over 70 million people worldwide, wherein nearly a quarter of patients with seizures have drug-...

Parkinson’s Disease is a condition that involves dysfunction or loss of dopamine-producing neurons in the brain. The hallmarks of this Disease are degeneration of dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra pars compacta of the midbrain and Lewy bodies presence, cytoplasmic aggregations of the protein a-synuclein ...