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MHLW Advisory Panel Backs Otsuka’s Schizophrenia Med Brexpiprazole and More
A key advisory committee of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (MHLW) on December 4 supported approval for Otsuka Pharmaceutical’s atypical antipsychotic agent brexpiprazole, a hoped-to-be successor to the company’s bread-and-butter Abilify (aripiprazole). Brexpiprazole, a new molecular entity (NME),…
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