2023 was a tough year in many ways, but saw significant positive developments in science and medicine, Washington Post reports
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2023 saw new understanding and the start of a treatment
for dementia, as clinical trials cotinue at the University
of Kentucky and other sites. (iStock photo via Washington Post)
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The Food and Drug Administration approved the first pill to treat postpartum depression, which affects up to one in five womenand can cause “experience intense hopelessness and, in rare cases, psychosis — and it can last for years,” the Post notes. “The new drug is taken once a day for two weeks and, unlike the existing treatment of an IV injection that may take as long as 60 hours to administer in a health-care setting, it can be taken at home.”
Meanwhile, the FDA approved, for the first time, to a drug that modestly slows Alzheimer’s disease. While difficult questions about safety, effectiveness and cost remain, many neurologists say that having a drug that slows Alzheimer’s is nonetheless a milestone after years of failed trials. The University of Kentucky is one of the sites of the clinical trials, and at last report was still seeking participants.
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