Topic: Food and Drug Administration
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 California, is a lower-dose formulation ...
(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 ...
(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 ...
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 ...
Ramelteon , marketed as Rozerem by Takeda Pharmaceuticals North America , is the first in a new class of sleep agents that selectively binds to the MT1 and MT2 receptors in the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN), versus binding to GABA A receptors, such ...
Triazolam (marketed in English speaking countries under the brand names Apo-Triazo , Halcion , Hypam , and Trilam ) is a benzodiazepine derivative drug. It possesses pharmacological properties similar to that of other benzodiazepines, but it is generally only used as a ...
Sera-Pharma cliniCAL is a supplement that the manufacturer claims can help users reach weight loss goals and also help deliver a good night's rest. The active ingredients in the morning formula include chromium, green coffee bean extract and green tea leaf extract. ...
Melatonin is a natural hormone that our brains produce by the pineal gland . Because of this, synthetic melatonin is allowed to be sold as a dietary supplement without being controlled by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Side effects and health ...
Melatonin, a Hormone Supplement frequently use to aid in treating insomnia conditions in most people, and even to treat the effects of Jet-lag, is a potential health risk to many unknown users which tend to overdose by self-prescribing. There have been many ...
Even a good night?s sleep can?t keep certain people from nodding off during the day. One area that may be a factor in the cause of the condition is the human leukocyte antigen (HLA). Individuals with narcolepsy have abnormal levels of HLA ...
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