Matt Hoffman

Compared to sham stimulation, the REN device was more effective in achieving pain relief and relief from the most bothersome symptom at 2 hours posttreatment and was maintained at 48 hours post-stimulation.

The WHO guidelines specifically promote a healthy lifestyle, including regular exercise, not smoking, avoiding the harmful use of alcohol, maintaining a healthy weight and diet, and keeping healthy levels of blood pressure, cholesterol, and blood sugar.

The lead investigator noted that “the study results are a promising step toward having a scientifically-validated tool for clinical use that can facilitate physician-patient conversations and ultimately help to get ahead of MS progression.”

Evobrutinib is the first BTK inhibitor to demonstrate clinical proof of concept in multiple sclerosis, reducing Gd+ lesions in a 75-mg, once-daily dose.

Suvorexant improved the mean total sleep time by 28.2 minutes for the patients receiving the treatment versus placebo, equating to a mean increase of 73.4 minutes with the orexin receptor antagonist.

The amifampridine tablets are the first approved therapy specifically indicated for the treatment of pediatric patients with LEMS, a rare autoimmune disorder with neuromuscular symptoms caused by affected nerve connections and muscle weakness.

The chief medical officer of Neurocrine Biosciences spoke about how long-term data on valbenazine (Ingrezza) has helped shape the understanding of the effect tardive dyskinesia can have on patients, and how it can inform better utilization of the medication.

Enough evidence to support further evaluation in a phase 3 trial in myasthenia gravis has been collected from these new phase 2 data of zilucoplan, formerly known as RA101495 SC.

Compared to interferon beta-1a, the reduction of grey matter volume loss was greater in those treated with both doses of the oral S1P receptor modulator across all age groups, including the youngest patients at the highest risk for brain volume loss.

Although the primary end point of centrally video-rated TETRAS Performance Subscale did not achieve statistical significance, CX-8998-treated patients showed significant improvements in a number of other measurements.

The sphingosine1-phosphate receptor modulator was shown to annualize relapse rates by more than 70% for patients switching from other disease-modifying therapies such as dimethyl fumarate; teriflunomide, and daclizumab.

The medical director of neurology and co-director of the Jane and John Justin Neurosciences Center at Cook Children’s Hospital spoke about what CBD has shown in clinical trials and how it could make an impact outside of Lennox-Gastaut and Dravet syndromes.

The phase 2 STARS trial was the first time in 50 years that an overall improvement in patients with Angelman syndrome was observed, in this instance with a once-daily dose of gaboxadol, also known as OV101.

In a pair of phase 2 trials and a phase 1 study, patients with SMA types 1 and 2 treated with the gene therapy displayed a number of motor milestone achievements and a prolonged event-free survival rate.

Although animal models and early phase studies suggested some potential for the hypertension medication to slow disability progression in Parkinson disease, a phase 3 assessment showed a lack of treatment effect.

In patients with Dravet syndrome who had discontinued an average of 4 antiepileptics drugs, while taking a mean of 3, cannabidiol reduced the incidence of seizures almost in half in doses of both 10 mg/kg and 20 mg/kg per day.

The report includes consensus-based recommendations, which consist of guidelines for the diagnosis and staging of LATE-neuropathological change—defined by stereotypical TDP-43 proteinopathy both with or without simultaneous hippocampal sclerosis pathology, in older adults.

Researchers found that cognitively unimpaired patients with apneas had an average of 4.5% higher levels of tau in the entorhinal cortex than those who did not have apneas, after controlling for several other factors.

The FDA announced that eszopiclone, zaleplon, and zolpidem will have a new boxed warning for rare, but serious injuries and deaths as a result of complex sleep behaviors caused by the medications.

While the overall link is only suggestive, new findings from a preliminary study have implied that there may be a link between sugar-sweetened beverage consumption and a higher disability status in MS.

The co-founder and CEO of Onera Health spoke about how Onera plans to revamp sleep diagnostics with its smart band-aid patches.

Onera’s co-founder and chief medical officer, and the associate professor at John’s Hopkins University spoke about the plans for recently raised Series A funding and how a newly developed patch system could alter the diagnostics of sleep medicine.

The chair of Applied Neuroimaging and head of Neuroimaging Sciences and Edinburgh Imaging at the University of Edinburgh spoke about what the physician community needs to know about utilizing isosorbide mononitrate and cilostazol for lacunar stroke.

Although highly efficacious DMTs have improved outcomes for a growing number of patients, the majority of people with MS are still subjected to the day-to-day consequences of the disease’s symptoms, which often have a more debilitating effect on the patient than the disease itself.

An escalating, combination dose of isosorbide mononitrate and cilostazol was shown to be well tolerated, with 72% of patients achieving full or ≥50% partial doses, the primary outcome, by the end of the 8-week treatment period.

The FDA issued a reminder that improper use of the Stryker Wingspan Stent System can result in an increased risk for stroke or mortality. The agency advises against using the system when the onset of symptoms is within 7 days or less of treatment or for the treatment of transient ischemic attacks.

NuPlasma yFFP was associated with improvements in complications of therapy, motor examination scores, mentation, behavior, and mood, and in activities of daily living in patients with Parkinson disease.

Over the course of approximately 3 years, Hammersmith Functional Motor Scale-Expanded and Upper Limb Module scores, as well as 6-Minute Walk Test distances, improved significantly in patients with SMA type 2 and type 3.

Infants with SMA—who have elevated pNF-H levels—experienced significant drops in pNF-H levels when treated with nusinersen (Spinraza, Biogen), suggestive of pNF-H’s potential as a biomarker of disease activity and treatment response.

Alder stated that it expected to receive a PDUFA action date within 74 days of the submission for eptinezumab and is planning a commercial launch of the anti-CGRP agent by early 2020.