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May 10, 2005
Is it a drug in search of a disease, or simply an affliction in need of better publicity?
Marketing a Disease, and Also a Drug to Treat It Avanir hopes that the drug, Neurodex, will win federal approval by the end of this year as a treatment for the uncontrollable laughing or crying that can be caused by various neurological diseases or injuries. As one doctor described the odd syndrome in a 1989 article, "Pathologic laughter is devoid of any inner sense of joy and pathologic weeping of any feeling of inner sorrow."
rsp10 May 10, 2005 11:47 AM