FDA ap­proves trail­blaz­ing post­par­tum de­pres­sion ther­a­py, in cru­cial mile­stone for wom­en's health

In a land­mark de­ci­sion, the US health reg­u­la­tor has ap­proved the first treat­ment for moth­ers suf­fer­ing from post­par­tum de­pres­sion (PPD), a com­mon but of­ten over­looked and stig­ma­tized com­pli­ca­tion of child­birth that af­fects an es­ti­mat­ed 1 in 7 women.

The man­u­fac­tur­er of the in­jectable treat­ment — Sage Ther­a­peu­tics $SAGE — has been busy, rais­ing more than half a bil­lion dol­lars through the sale of its stock to sup­port the com­mer­cial roll­out of the drug, hir­ing a 180-strong sales­force and set­ting up se­lect cen­ters for women to get ad­min­is­tered with the one-time treat­ment un­der med­ical su­per­vi­sion.

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