Sage plots come­back plan for its ex­per­i­men­tal oral an­ti­de­pres­sant

Tri­als test­ing de­pres­sion drugs in­vari­ably tend to dis­ap­point. Per­haps the most keen­ly-an­tic­i­pat­ed de­pres­sion tri­al of 2019, de­spite great an­a­lyst and in­vestor op­ti­mism, al­so failed in pa­tients with ma­jor de­pres­sive dis­or­der (MDD), evap­o­rat­ing bil­lions from its drug­mak­er Sage Ther­a­peu­tics’ mar­ket val­ue in ear­ly De­cem­ber.

The com­pa­ny — which last spring se­cured the land­mark ap­proval of its in­jectable post­par­tum de­pres­sion drug Zul­res­so — now has an FDA-en­dorsed path for­ward for its ex­per­i­men­tal oral an­ti­de­pres­sant.

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