Epilepsy drug 'with the power to be life-changing' now covered in Sask.

CBC News

· Posted: May 01, 2025 12:43 PM EDT | Last Updated: 7 minutes ago

An anti-seizure medicine that epilepsy patients have been asking the Saskatchewan authorities to wage for is present being covered successful the province.

Xcopri, the marque sanction for cenobamate tablets, is being added to the Saskatchewan Formulary.

In a quality merchandise issued Thursday morning, Saskatchewan wellness curate Jeremy Cockrill acknowledged radical surviving with epilepsy, and the specialists who attraction for them, person been calling for entree to this medication.

Cockrill said the cause offers "real hope" to radical struggling with uncontrolled seizures, adding it could mean less infirmary visits, less surgeries, and a amended prime of life.

In the authorities release, Epilepsy Saskatoon President Lori Newman said Xcopri has shown it has the imaginable to trim oregon power seizures, adjacent for radical that person historically struggled with seizure control.

Newman said the medicine "has the powerfulness to beryllium life-changing," adding sum of the cause gives radical surviving with epilepsy "tangible hope."

According to the government, astir 10,500 radical successful Saskatchewan unrecorded with epilepsy. It estimates about 100 radical could payment from this medicine successful the archetypal twelvemonth of coverage. 

Criteria for sum of Xcopri is listed connected the Saskatchewan Formulary, on with different medications that whitethorn beryllium due for epilepsy patients.