Lifting the Barriers to Depression Treatment: Making Depression Treatment More Accessible

Lifting the Barriers to Depression Treatment: Making Depression Treatment More Accessible

More than 300 million people in the world suffer from clinical depression, but 50% of them will never seek treatment. Rather, these people suffer from such symptoms as sadness, inability to concentrate, and loss of appetite—with limited hope for improvement. Many...
ESKETAMINE: ONE STEP CLOSER TO FDA APPROVAL

ESKETAMINE: ONE STEP CLOSER TO FDA APPROVAL

In August 2016, Janssen Research & Development—a Janssen Pharmaceutical Company of Johnson & Johnson—announced that an isomer of ketamine, called esketamine, had received Breakthrough Therapy Designation by the Food & Drug Administration (FDA). Similarly...