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The potential of virtual reality-based therapy for serious mental disorders

Pharmaceutical Technology

In June this year, it was announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had granted UK-based OxfordVR a breakthrough device designation for its gameChangeVR treatment to deliver immersive cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) to people suffering from schizophrenia and other mental illnesses. million people in the UK and 2.7

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How NLP Helps Life Sciences Companies Unlock Insights from Drug Labels

PM360

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) or European Medicines Agency (EMA). Understanding patient sub-group exceptions for competitive or for label development purposes. Typically, a drug label refers to any information provided with prescription drugs, as requested by regulators such as the U.S. Challenges in Working with Label Data.

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Paving the way for anti-Abeta active immunotherapy

European Pharmaceutical Review

Targeting toxic species of Abeta, such as multimers (with aducanumab and lecanemab) or pyroglutamate Abeta3-42 (with donanemab), induced significant removal of Abeta plaque load in the brains of Alzheimer’s patients, leading to the delay in cognitive decline. Treatment with the mAbs delayed cognitive decline by 2.6 months for lecanemab and 5.5