Portuguese pharmacist Bial has launched a new drug for patients with Parkinson. The novelty is in the form of administration, more comfortable and that brings faster relief from Symptoms.
Apomorphine is a medicine injectable well known, But now comes in an innovative format. A film that stands under the tongue for quick absorption.
“It is a medicine that allows you to quickly, with 15 to 30 minutes, start improving the off moment and allows the patient to enter On, so it gets better in motor terms and has the ease of being administered by the patient when he needs,” Neurologist Margarida Rodrigues explains.
“It looks little but I think Extraordinarily adds to the quality of life of a patient They often know when they will have these moments, but often do not know when they will have them, “says António Portela, CEO of Bial.
Arrived at markets Portuguese and Spanish On the 1st of this month. Is marketed in Germany, where it is manufactured, since May 2024. This release of Bial Come to complement The treatment of Parkinson’s symptoms.
“In the early years of the disease, it has stability with the treatments, [mas] From the moment they begin to have moments of lock, they may have indication to use the sublingual apormofine, “says the neurologist.
This neurodegenerative disease and without healing affects about 20,000 people in Portugal. Provokes, in a variable way, the lentification of the movements, stiffness and tremor.
In Bial is underway an essay for the first medicine that Want to act in the cause. It is intended for patients with a specific mutation.
“If the results are extraordinary, authorities usually want drugs to get patients as soon as possible, especially when there are no alternatives. (…) Running the normal times, only there for 2030 we hope you are on the market,” Bial CEO predicts.
Parkinson affects about 10 Millions of people around the world And it’s the second disease most common neurodegenerative, after Alzheimer’s. It is estimated that the incidence duplicate Until 2050.
