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Sage Drug Could Help Take Stigma Out Of Postpartum Depression

 
• By Mandy Jackson

SAGE Therapeutics Inc. could offer the one in eight new mothers suffering from postpartum depression (PPD) freedom from the overwhelming condition with the first-ever drug to specifically treat PPD if the rapid and durable response to SAGE-547 in a small Phase II clinical trial holds up in future studies.

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SAGE Therapeutics Inc. could offer the one in eight new mothers suffering from postpartum depression (PPD) freedom from the overwhelming condition with the first-ever drug to specifically treat PPD if the rapid and durable response to SAGE-547 in a small Phase II clinical trial holds up in future studies.

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