MedCity News September 27, 2024
Frank Vinluan

Bristol Myers Squibb’s Cobenfy treats schizophrenia by going after a different target than currently available antipsychotic drugs, which is intended to offer better efficacy and safety. The drug came from the pharma giant’s $14 billion acquisition of Karuna Therapeutics.

Schizophrenia is currently treated with older medications with limited efficacy and troublesome side effects that lead many patients to stop taking them. The FDA has approved a novel Bristol Myers Squibb drug that takes a different approach to schizophrenia, introducing the first novel medication for the disorder in decades.

For patients, approval of the drug, Cobenfy, offers a new treatment option with better tolerability. For BMS, the late Thursday regulatory decision marks a payoff for its multi-billion dollar acquisition of the...

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