Health Canada approves Xcopri to treat partial offset seizures – Paladin Labs

SK Biopharmaceuticals said that Health Canada granted a Notice of Compliance for Xcopri (ingredient: cenobamate), its epilepsy drug, approving its application for marketing authorization in Canada. Paladin Labs, a local pharmaceutical company, will be in charge of commercializing the product in Canada. Xcopri is the first locally-developed epilepsy drug to score FDA approval, with the entire drug development process from […]

AI algorithm that detects brain abnormalities could help cure epilepsy

An artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm that can detect subtle brain abnormalities which cause epileptic seizures has been developed by a UCL-led team of international researchers. The Multicentre Epilepsy Lesion Detection project (MELD) used over 1,000 patient MRI scans from 22 global epilepsy centres to develop the algorithm, which provides reports of where abnormalities are in cases of drug-resistant focal cortical […]