The Promise of FT218 Therapy for Narcolepsy Patients

How has sleep medicine changed in recent years, and what does the future hold? These are questions that are being asked this week at the World Sleep 2022 congress in Rome, Italy, and new data presented at the conference by Avadel Pharmaceuticals could provide a answers for patients struggling from narcolepsy. A new post-hoc analyses for the sodium oxybate FT218 found that the therapy improved daytime sleepiness, sleep quality, and refreshing nature of sleep in patients with narcolepsy. It’s safety and efficacy was well established in the ongoing RESTORE study and the REST-ON trial, with participants receiving therapy for more than 18 months in the former. In an interview with HCPLive, Michael J. Thorpy, MD, director of the Sleep-Wake Disorders Center at Montefiore and professor of neurology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, spoke of the implications of FT218 data in the realm of narcolepsy research and how pediatric patients with narcolepsy could benefit from the therapy in future trials.