CoLucid Hopes Lasmiditan Can Offer New, Safer Migraine Drug Class
Executive Summary
Prospects that CoLucid Pharmaceuticals’ lead asset might offer a viable new class of migraine treatment are brighter following the release of positive Phase III data showing lasmiditan helps twice as many patients to be headache-free after two hours versus a placebo.
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