News Report: Parents Say “Miracle Drug” Taken Away After Study Ends
Video clip from local news station covering a family who participated in a study that later ended and they want to get their hands on the drug that they called a miracle drug.
The STX209 Saga and Beyond—What We’ve Done, What We’re Doing and What’s the Plan
(c) Photo: Laura Gilmore For more than 10 years the NFXF has been participating in the life-sized chess game that is the federal budget. Even before the decision was made to bring the [...]
A Bump in the Drug Therapy Road: What Can Advocates Do?
Note: Just before I wrote this article, a group of parents that Margaret Mead could have easily been describing when she penned her most famous quote ("Never doubt that a small group of committed people [...]
Dr. Elizabeth Berry-Kravis on the Challenges Inherent in a Clinical Trial
We asked Dr. Elizabeth Berry-Kravis to comment on the challenges inherent in a clinical trial.
NY Times : An Experimental Drug’s Bitter End
Photo by Daniel Acker for the New York Times On the front page of the Business section of the June 7 New York Times was an article regarding Seaside Therapeutics' ending of the [...]
An Update from Seaside 5/22
Yesterday we received the following messages from Paul Wang, Vice President, Clinical & Medical Affairs at Seaside Therapeutics, Inc. Dear all - I wanted to let you know about a letter that we just posted [...]
Open Letter to the FX Community about Seaside Arbaclofen (STX209)
To our Fragile X family: Many of you by now have heard the news that Seaside Therapeutics has decided to end their extension of the trial medication known as Arbaclofen (STX209). The NFXF Board of [...]
Seaside Therapeutics Announces End of Arbaclofen (STX209) Extension Study
Late yesterday afternoon the NFXF, along with all of the study locations, was contacted by Seaside Therapeutics and informed that the “Study 209FX303 [An Open-Label Extension Study to Evaluate the Safety, Tolerability, and Pharmacokinetics of [...]