US approves drug for middle-of-the-night insomniacs

2011-11-23T19:30:43Z

The US Food and Drug Administration, for the first time, approved Wednesday medication specifically designed for those who wake up in the middle of the night and cannot fall back to sleep.

Intermezzo, manufactured by Transcept Pharmaceuticals of Reuters) - Transcept Pharmaceuticals Inc said the U.S. health regulator has approved its sleep drug Intermezzo as a first-of-its kind treatment of a particular type of insomnia.

The approval -- after two rejections earlier -- comes four days before the review date originally assigned by ...

Transcept gets shorter review on sleep drug

2011-10-04T11:00:25Z

(Reuters) - Transcept Pharmaceuticals Inc said health regulators granted a shorter review period of two months for its experimental sleep drug, reviving hopes for the treatment and sending company shares up as much as 34 percent.

The treatment Intermezzo had been considered virtually dead by

Pushing Western medicine with fear in India

2011-07-07T09:30:33Z

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - If you sleep less than six hours a night, you're increasing your risk of developing or dying from heart disease by 48 percent. At least, that's what U.S.-based pharmaceutical giant Abbott would have 1.2 billion people in India believe.

But doctors say the grim message, which appeared in a newspaper ad in India...

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FDA says no to Jazz Pharma fibromyalgia drug

2010-10-11T06:30:57Z

FDA wants more clinical trials on Jazz Pharma's fibromyalgia drug; shares tumble

Federal regulators want additional clinical studies of a fibromyalgia drug candidate from Jazz Pharmaceuticals and the failure to get a go-ahead sent company shares down 11 percent before the market opened Monday.

New clinical trials could take years to complete, delaying approval for the drug JZP-...

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Unable To Get Adequate Sleep At Night? Sleep Aid Pills Can Help You Out!

2010-10-06T10:24:06Z

At least 7-8 hours of proper sleep during the night is essential for relaxing your nerves and further to rejuvenate your entire mind and body. If you are consistently incapable of fulfilling your quota of sleep for a prolonged period of time, then you need to opt for useful relaxation and stress management techniques that can help you in obtaining relief from the shackles of insomnia. But if meditation, relaxation and other similar procedures fail to yield effective results, then what is the ...

Insomnia in Children Is Quite Common, Duke Medicine Expert says

2010-09-11T14:06:15Z

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The Sleep Aid Tryptophan

2010-10-06T10:21:50Z

Until 1990 tryptophan was by far the most popular natural sleep aid on the market. In 1990 the United States Food and Drug Administration pulled all tryptophan from store shelves due to a sudden outbreak of eosinophilic-myalgia syndrome that occurred among some people who had taken the sleep aid. Once the United States banned the nutrient many other countries soon followed. Ultimately almost five thousand people reported getting sick and twenty seven people died from the serious illness. The ...

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Have You Tried One Of These 6 Stop Snoring Mouth Guards?

2010-10-06T09:48:05Z

Nobody wants to be around someone who snores at night, and nobody wants to be "that guy" or "gal" who snores. Even if it only happens once a week, it's a nuisance, but there's hope. There are a number of remedies, including mouth guards. Have you tried one of these six stop snoring mouth guards?

1. The "AveoTSD"
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Snoring - Can It Be Cured With An Anti Snoring Pillow ?

2010-09-09T20:41:01Z

If you have suffered from snoring or a similar sleep condition for some time, you have most likely become aware of the plethora of anti snore aids that are available for purchase. Some are not so good, but the majority offer great relief to many snorers. The product that offered me the best quick relief from my snoring was the anti snoring pillow, which works amazingly well.

I found the anti snoring pillow to be a really great product that worked well, and could be bought quite che...

Sleepless Nights for Somaxon: Will It Find a Partner for Its Insomnia Drug?

2010-10-27T08:55:27Z

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U.S. rejects nighttime Tylenol, Excedrin study

2010-05-05T11:17:03Z

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Tylenol PM and other widely used acetaminophen pain drugs that include a sleep-aid failed to show significant benefit in a key study, U.S. health regulators have told drugmakers 15 years after the industry submitted the data.

Patients taking the drugs, most commonly sold as Johnson &...

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2010-10-27T07:51:43Z

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Regulatory Setback for Cephalon

2010-10-25T12:29:13Z

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Somaxon share offering to fund insomnia drug plan

2010-09-22T14:21:36Z

Somaxon to sell 4 million shares to raise funds for marketing insomnia drug Silenor

Just days after receiving Food and Drug Administration approval for Silenor, biotech company Somaxon Pharmaceuticals Inc. made plans to sell 4 million shares to f...

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Sanofi Ends Development Of Insomnia, Clot Drugs

2010-10-24T15:17:19Z

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FDA extends Nuvigil jet lag review by 3 months

2010-04-16T08:12:36Z

Cephalon says FDA decision on Nuvigil as treatment for jet lag is now due March 29

The Food and Drug Administration needs more time to review Cephalon Inc.'s drug Nuvigil as a treatment for jet lag, Cephalon said Monday.

Cephalon is seeking approval to market Nuvigil fo...

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Stop Snoring Mouth Device Reviews - 4 Different Stop Snoring Mouth Guards to Try

2010-09-09T20:07:39Z

Are you looking for reviews of Stop Snoring mouth device like mouth guards? There is a wide range of products and exercise programs today that can help get rid of a person's snoring, and mouth devices are one of them. Some people snore every once in a while, while others have the habit of doing it every single night. Regardless,...

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Key information missing from U.S. drug labels

2010-04-16T09:41:56Z

BOSTON (Reuters) - Drug labels in the United States often omit information showing the severity of side effects or that a medicine is not very effective, two doctors said Wednesday.

The result can be a document skewed toward making a medicine seem safer and more effective than it really is, they wrote in a commentary in the Transcept surges after company enters US sleep aid promotion agreement with Purdue Pharma

Shares of Transcept Pharmaceuticals Inc. rocketed Monday after the company said it licensed its insomnia treatment candidate Intermezzo to Purdue Pharmaceutical Pro...

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Transcept Pharmaceuticals Presents Data at SLEEP 2009 23rd Annual Meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies

2010-10-24T09:14:54Z

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Somaxon Pharmaceuticals Presents Analyses of Silenor Clinical Data at the American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting

2010-10-24T09:14:33Z

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Transcept Pharmaceuticals Presents Data from Studies of Two Product Candidates at Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association

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Help For The Sleep-Deprived

2010-11-03T08:16:06Z

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Orexo's Edluar (formerly Sublinox) receives FDA approval for the treatment of insomnia

2010-10-23T22:13:52Z

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Sleep disorder drugs require patient counseling

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Side Effects of Sleep Drugs

2010-04-16T17:57:05Z

Eating a little bit of chocolate was a treat that Teresa Wood looked forward to after work. The Fairfax Station, Va., resident allowed herself two small pieces of chocolate candy a day.

But after taking a drug to help her sleep at night, Wood awoke in the morning to find an empty box on the table in place of a pound of chocolates that had been there the night before.

"I couldn't believe it," says Wood. "I started looking all...

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Transcept Pharmaceuticals Announces FDA Acceptance for Review of New Drug Application for Intermezzo

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NovaDel's New Drug Application for ZolpiMist Oral Spray to Treat Insomnia Accepted for Filing by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration

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Sleep Well - be Strong

2010-10-06T10:17:11Z

Many older people don?t get enough sleep, which can them to prevent risk of serious health problems such as obesity, cardiovascular disease and diabetes, says the American Academy of Sleep Medicine.
While sleep patterns do change as people age, disturbed sleep and waking up tired every day aren?t a normal part of aging.
?As we get older, the amount of nightly rest that we need remains the same as that of what we needed when we were younger. However the ability to get the sleep th...

Somaxon Presents Pharmacological Data on Doxepin at the 21st European College of Neuropsychopharmacology Congress

2010-10-23T15:59:48Z

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2010-10-06T10:03:21Z

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30, 40, or 72 million -- depending on whom you believe -- is the number of Americans who have a sleep disorder. How do they gather these stats, and what precisely do they mean by ?sleep disorder?? And who are ?they,? anyway?

None of that matters! If you nod off on the job, or your social life has become drudgery or nothing seems as much fun because you are...

Transcept Pharmaceuticals Announces Intent to Submit New Drug Application for Intermezzo in Third Quarter 2008

2010-10-23T09:21:01Z

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Company pleads guilty, admitting it illegally promoted drug

2010-09-09T08:39:49Z

A pharmaceutical company admitted Friday in a settlement that it marketed a powerful depressant to doctors for illnesses it was not approved to treat.

Orphan Medical Inc., a subsidiary of Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc., pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in

Strategies for the management of insomnia: An update on pharmacologic therapies

2010-10-22T17:09:43Z

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FDA Calls for Stronger Warnings on Sleep Drugs

2010-10-15T09:43:00Z

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THE FUTURE OF WORK You Snooze, You Lose

2010-10-26T13:25:18Z

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Concern over pharmaceuticals' 'special offer' marketing

2010-10-15T20:30:17Z

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Star Scientific-Smokeless Tobacco

2011-01-04T12:31:04Z

FILE - In this Sept. 28, 2010 file photo, smokeless tobacco products, including Ariva, are displayed in Richmond, Va. Tobacco maker Star Scientific Inc. says it has developed a moist smokeless tobacco with lower levels of cancer-causing chemicals than any other tobacco product now on the market. Star Scientific says the "modified-risk" label that the

FDA Obesity Treatments

2010-12-03T21:31:29Z

In this product photograph provided by Allergan, Inc., the LAP-BAND System is displayed. An FDA panel will vote whether to recommend expanding the use of a stomach shrinking band currently approved just for the morbidly obese. (AP Photo/Allergan, Inc.) NO SALES

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Novartis Settlement

2010-09-30T12:45:34Z

U.S. Attorney Zane David Memeger, from left, speaks as Nicholas DiGiulio from the Department of Health and Human Services and Thomas Doyle from the Food and Drug Administra...

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2010-09-26T21:30:31Z

FILE - In this Jan. 11, 1995 file photo, inventor of the RU-486 abortion-inducing drug, Professor Emile-Etienne Beaulieu, holds the pills in Paris. Ten years ago, on Sept. 28, 2000, after long and bitter debate, the Food and Drug Administration approved use of the abortion pill by American wom...

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US approves drug for middle-of-the-night insomniacs

Transcept gets shorter review on sleep drug

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Ramelteon

Triazolam

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What is melatonin?

Side effects of melatonin supplements

What is narcolepsy?

How to take medication safely

Difference between prescription and over-the-counter sleep aids

The different medications prescribed for fibromyalgia

Anti Snoring Pillow - Anti snore Pillow

Snoring Surgery Facts

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FDA says no to Jazz Pharma fibromyalgia drug

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Unable To Get Adequate Sleep At Night? Sleep Aid Pills Can Help You Out!

Insomnia in Children Is Quite Common, Duke Medicine Expert says

The Sleep Aid Tryptophan

The Effects of Eskatrol Spansules on the Fetus

Defending The Narcolepsy ?Date Rape? Drug

Jazz FDA Panel Meeting: Leaning on the Positive Outcome Side

The Weird and Dangerous World of Sleeping Pills

Sodium Oxybate & Sleep in Fibromyalgia

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Sleepless Nights for Somaxon: Will It Find a Partner for Its Insomnia Drug?

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Somaxon share offering to fund insomnia drug plan

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Intermezzo

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Transcept Pharmaceuticals Presents Data at SLEEP 2009 23rd Annual Meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies

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Help For The Sleep-Deprived

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NovaDel Pharma: Won't Be Long Before Big Pharma Partners Come Calling

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NovaDel Pharma Receives FDA Approval of Zolpimist

Transcept Pharmaceuticals Announces FDA Acceptance for Review of New Drug Application for Intermezzo

Treatment for jet lag could take off

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