The Ice Hockey Summit III has published a list of action items to address the diagnosis, clinical care and prevention of sports-related concussion (Smith et al. Curr Sports Med Rep 2019;18:23-34). The report follows on guidelines on mild traumatic brain injury in children by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (Lumba-Brown et al. JAMA Pediatr 2018;172:e182853), and guidelines on the management of concussion by the American Academy of Neurology (Giza et al. Neurology 2013;80:2250-7). Read More
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Two trials terminated in Alzheimer’s disease
January 31, 2019Roche has announced that it has terminated two phase III trials of crenezumab, a monoclonal antibody targeting beta-amyloid. The trials, CREAD 1 and CREAD 2, were evaluating the agent in prodromal to mild Alzheimer’s disease. Read More
Phase III trials in neurology – 2018 in review
January 24, 2019A dozen phase III trials in neurology were published in 2018, many of which led to FDA approvals. The following is a summary of the study results. Read More
Record number of FDA drug approvals in 2018
January 9, 2019The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved 59 new drugs in 2018 – a 30% increase over the number approved in 2017 and a 270% increase over the low-water mark set in 2016. Only 7 of the new approvals were for drugs used in neurology; there were no approvals of psychiatric agents. Read More