Most of the approved sleep aids have not been studied in cancer populations; therefore the risk/benefit profiles of these drugs are not delineated in this setting.
"This drug seems likely to be approved for sleeping sickness, and is an excellent example of drug discovery scientists 'rescuing' a compound that was otherwise in the dustbin of a large drug company," Michael Pollastri, an associate professor at Northeastern University, told HuffPost.
Currently, only four chemotherapeutics are approved for sleeping sickness.
I would like to get more sleep, but unfortunately, my bosses don't approve of sleeping at my computer!
In 2011, the agency recognized this variability when it approved the sleep drug Intermezzo, which treats patients who wake up in the middle of the night, in two doses: one for men and a smaller dose for women.
Eflornithine, the only drug with a known mechanism of action, is also the only therapeutic for sleeping sickness approved in the last 50 years (Fairlamb, 2003).
But with some members expressing concern that the drug might be overprescribed, the committee did not endorse the request by the drug's manufacturer, Cephalon, that it be approved for all sleep disorders.
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Geese are captured and "taken off site and humanely euthanized using CO2 to put them to sleep, using methods approved by the American Veterinary Medical Association," said Jason Post, a spokesman for the mayor.
The official said the classified list of approved techniques included disrupting prisoners' sleep routines and requiring them to disrobe entirely for questioning, but not to be paraded through a cellblock, as some of the prisoners at Abu Ghraib were.
