Japan’s cost-effectiveness assessment (CEA) panel has approved a revised handling policy for the CEA system for FY2026, with the health…
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Brexpiprazole Improves Schizophrenia in PIII: Otsuka, Lundbeck
Otsuka Pharmaceutical and its Danish partner H. Lundbeck A/S said on December 11 that their investigational antipsychotic agent brexpiprazole significantly improved psychiatric symptoms in patients with schizophrenia compared to placebo in two US PIII clinical studies. One of the studies…
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