Axsome Is Latest To Falter With Technology For Unlocking Meloxicam’s Analgesic Potential

Axsome’s CRL was not the first from the US FDA for the nearly insoluble NSAID as sponsors try different technologies for delivering its pain relief quickly.

Is it a mirage or an oasis?
A mirage or oasis: speedy meloxicam pan relief • Source: Alamy

Axsome Therapeutics, Inc., New York, NY, has become the latest sponsor entranced by the analgesic potential of meloxicam to stumble on the BCS class II drug’s virtual insolubility.

Like others before it, Axsome has proposed to unlock the non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug’s potential with a trademarked technology, only to...

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