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Rami Kaminski, MD, is Director and Founder of the Institute for Integrative Psychiatry in New York, a not-for-profit organization aimed at evaluating current psychiatric services and how they integrate with medicine, such as the mutual effects between medical and psychiatric conditions. Prior to that,...
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Head to Head Comparisons will Help Patients but Hurt Profits
May 27, 2008
Warning over drug trial’s effects on testing | www.ft.com
Direct comparisons between potential competing agents often do not exist Initial FDA approval is usually based on comparisons to placebo A new approval does necessarily mean that the new agent is better than existing ones, although this is implied by industry Industry bears all the costs of efficacy...
Eli Lilly & Company Develops Novel Antipsychotic for Treating Schizophrenia
February 27, 2008
Daring to Think Differently About Schizophrenia | www.nytimes.com
All currently marketed antipsychotic medications for treating schizophrenia rely on mechanisms of action which target dopamine and serotonin receptors. Although these medications reduce delusions and hallucinations without inducing symptoms of Parkinson's Disease...
February 26, 2008
Daring to Think Differently About Schizophrenia | www.nytimes.com
The clinical trial which was done has shown only comparable efficacy to available treatment for positive symptoms. It did not study efficacy for cognition or negative symptoms. It did not test efficacy in treatment resistant patients. It did not show long term efficacy. It did not showthat...
Not Another mGluR Drug: The Competition Is On.
January 9, 2008
Pfizer and Taisho Finalize Agreement for Novel Schizophrenia Drug Candidate | www.pipelinereview.com:80
Pfizer Inc (NYSE:PFE) and Taisho Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. (OTC:TSOPF.PK) announced the signing of a definitive agreement for worldwide collaboration to research, develop and commercialize TS-032. TS-032 is a metabotropic glutamate receptor (mGluR) agonist, a novel drug candidate for the...
January 8, 2008
Addex and Merck & Co., Inc. Enter License Agreement to Develop a Drug Candidate for Schizophrenia | www.pipelinereview.com:80
Addex Pharmaceuticals (Swiss:ADXN.SW) announced on January 3, 2008 an exclusive worldwide license agreement with Merck & Co., Inc. (NYSE:MRK) to develop ADX63365, a potent and selective positive allosteric modulator of the metabotropic glutamate receptor subtype 5 (mGluR5) with potential for the...
| Study Group Name | No. Members |
|---|---|
| Physicians who Treat Schizophrenia (US) | 371 |
| Psychiatrists (US) | 1155 |
| Psychiatrists | 1554 |
| Physicians who Treat ADHD (US) | 459 |
| Seroquel Prescribers forSchizophrenia (US) | 109 |
| Effexor XR Prescribers (US) | 148 |
| Physicians who Treat Depression (US) | 450 |