Posted by ed_uk2010 on April 28, 2014, at 13:43:42
In reply to Drugs in the Pipeline-Europe?, posted by BrainDamage on April 28, 2014, at 7:13:53
>Further more the EU approval system is much more opaque than the US
>So information is harder to come by.....If the drug has been approved centrally by the European Medicines agency, the information will be on the EMEA website:
http://www.ema.europa.eu/ema/index.jsp?curl=pages/home/Home_Page.jsp&mid=#
Click on New Medicines.
If the drug has been approved in the UK specifically, the information will appear on the MHRA website.
You can see that the EMEA has recently recommended the approval of the antipsychotic lurasidone (Latuda) for the treatment of schizophrenia. Latuda is already approved in the US (for schizophrenia and for depression in bipolar disorder).
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