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Health: finally an effective remedy for insomnia?
A new drug, Quviviq, has just been authorized on the European market. It could represent hope for the many French people who suffer from insomnia.
(France 2)
A new drug, Quviviq, has just been authorized on the European market. It could represent hope for the many French people who suffer from insomnia.
For those who suffer from sleep problems, the arrival in recent days of a new remedy for insomnia has raised hope among patients: Quviviq. This treatment, on prescription, delays awakening. The molecule is called daridorexant. “Insomnia is a pathology of hyper-arousal, overall. By reducing this threshold of arousal (…), we will encourage sleeping, and make awakenings fewer in number”explains Professor Pierre Alexis Geoffroy, from Bichat hospital (AP-HP).
Only for certain insomnia
In a sleep center, patients are hidden day and night. Equipped with electrodes, patients have their sleep scrutinized. THE “lack of sleep is cruelly difficult to live with”, confides one of them, Christine Marihic. The arrival of the new drug could represent hope for her, who says “always very open to testing things” to try to improve their daily lives. Quviviq, on the other hand, will only be prescribed in specific cases.
