{"id":593963,"date":"2026-08-15T10:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T10:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/593963\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T10:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T10:26:09","slug":"fda-approves-drug-for-narcolepsy-the-presidential-prayer-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/593963\/","title":{"rendered":"FDA Approves Drug for Narcolepsy \u2013 The Presidential Prayer Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img width=\"730\" height=\"438\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/unsplash-narcolepsy-sleep-730x438.jpg\" class=\"attachment-wise-post-thumb size-wise-post-thumb wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"  \/>\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>An official says this is the first drug that addresses the underlying biology of the disease.<\/p>\n<p>The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved\u00a0Orzeyful\u00a0(oveporexton), a drug used to treat narcolepsy type 1 in adults.\u00a0The drug is the first of its kind to\u00a0address the full range of symptoms caused by the disease.\u00a0One in 2,000 individuals in the U.S. is affected by narcolepsy.\u00a0Symptoms can range from\u00a0excessive daytime sleepiness, cataplexy, sleep paralysis, and\u00a0hallucinations.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>The FDA explained, \u201cRather than masking symptoms with stimulants or sedatives, Orzeyful directly activates the same brain receptor that the body\u2019s own orexin would normally stimulate, restoring the missing signal.\u201d\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor too long, people with narcolepsy type 1 have had to manage a complex, lifelong neuropsychiatric with treatments that only address pieces of it,\u201d\u00a0said Director Tiffany Farchione of the Division of Psychiatry in the FDA\u2019s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research.\u00a0\u201cThis new drug is the first medicine that impacts the underlying biology of the disease, treating\u00a0narcolepsytype\u00a01 as a whole.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>As the Lord Leads, Pray with Us\u2026<\/p>\n<p>For\u00a0Acting Commissioner Diamantas as he oversees the FDA approvals of drugs and medications.<br \/>\nFor Secretary Kennedy as he heads the Department of Health and Human Services.<br \/>\nFor those affected by narcolepsy who may be helped by the new medication.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right has-cyan-bluish-gray-color has-text-color\"> Sources: U.S. Food and Drug Administration, UPI News\n<\/p>\n<p>RECENT PRAYER UPDATES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An official says this is the first drug that addresses the underlying biology of the disease. The Food&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":132883,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[103,61,60,371],"class_list":["post-593963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-medication","tag-health","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-medication"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=593963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}