Business Wire - CyDex Announces Captisol Technology Used in Injection Formulation of Veterinary Anti-Emetic Cerenia® Recently Approved for Marketing in Europe
November 18th, 2008 LENEXA, Kan. — CyDex, Inc., a specialty pharmaceutical company developing improved products through innovative drug delivery, today announced that a subcutaneous injection formulation of the veterinary anti-emetic medication Cerenia([R])(maropitant) from Pfizer Limited contains CyDex’s Captisol([R])-enabling technology.
On September 29, 2006, the European Medicines Agency approved both the subcutaneous injection and tablet formulations of Pfizer’s Cerenia for marketing through…
Antipsychotics in Kids May Add Weight
November 12th, 2008 May 7, 2008 (Washington) — Children who are taking antipsychotic drugs should be regularly monitored for potentially dangerous changes in body fat and lipids (blood fat).
So says a researcher who found that kids experienced almost immediate increases in body mass index (BMI) and triglyceride levels after they started taking the drugs.
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USA TODAY - Bristol’s $499M drug–pricing settlement among biggest
November 5th, 2008Drugmaker Bristol-Myers Squibb said Thursday that it would pay $499 million to settle federal investigations into its pricing, sales and marketing practices. The tentative agreement is one of the biggest in recent years for drugmakers regarding drug marketing and pricing. It aims to settle investigations into Bristol’s marketing of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder drug Abilify for conditions the drug was not approved to treat, says Bristol spokesma…
HealthDay - Clinical Trials Update: Nov. 26, 2007
November 1st, 2008 By Jeff Swiatek, The Indianapolis Star Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Apr. 23–The Prozac blahs seem over for Eli Lilly and Co., which on Tuesday reported its highest sales jump since the patent on its famous antidepressant expired nearly two years ago.
Sales from January through March grew 13 percent, to $2.89 billion, over the same period a year ago, the drugmaker said Tuesday.
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HealthDay - Abilify Approved as Additional Treatment for Major Depression
October 27th, 2008The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Abilify (aripiprazole) as an add-on therapy for people with major depressive disorder who don’t benefit enough from antidepressant therapy alone, its makers said Tuesday.
Abilify, approved in November 2002 to treat schizophrenia, is among a class of medications called atypical antipsychotics. The latest approval followed clinical studies involving 743 patients.
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JCNN News Summaries - Japan Corporate News Network - ABILIFY Now Applicable to Maintenance Treatment of Bipolar Disorder:
October 20th, 2008 Bristrol-Myers Squibb (BMS) and Otsuka Pharmaceutical have jointly announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved an additional indication for ABILIFY (aripiprazole) Tablets and Oral Solution, atypical antipsychotics, as of March 1.
With this approval, ABILIFY is now applicable to the maintenance treatm…
The Different Depression Medications Available Today
October 13th, 2008Depression and mental illnesses are extremely common in the world that we live in today. In every 5 American adults, at least 1 of them is suffering from either depression or mild mental illness in any given 6 months’ period. However, a point to note…the National Institute of Mental Health reveals t…
HealthDay - Abilify Approved for Adolescents With Schizophrenia
October 13th, 2008The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the Bristol-Myers Squibb antipsychotic drug Abilify (aripiprazole) for adolescents aged 13 to 17 diagnosed with schizophrenia, the company said Tuesday.
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HealthDay - Abilify Approved for Children With Bipolar Disorder
October 11th, 2008The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Abilify (aripiprazole) to treat manic and mixed episodes in children aged 10 to 17 with bipolar 1 disorder, makers Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co. and Bristol-Myers Squibb Inc. said Friday.
The drug has been approved for this and other uses in adults for several years.
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Business Wire - Drug to Treat Schizophrenia With a New Mechanism of Action, Antipsychotic Agent ”Abilify®” Available in Japan From June 8
October 8th, 2008 TOKYO — Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. (OPC; Head Office: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan; President: Tatsuo Higuchi; Phone: 81-3-3292-0021) announces the launch of an atypical antipsychotic agent, Abilify(R) (development code: OPC-14597, nonproprietary name: aripiprazole), on June 8.
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