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September 26, 2024 – Bristol Myers Squibb announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Cobenfy (xanomeline and trospium chloride), an oral medication for the treatment of schizophrenia in adults.

  • Cobenfy represents the first new class of medicine in several decades and introduces a fundamentally new approach to treating schizophrenia by selectively targeting M 1 and M 4 receptors in the brain without blocking D 2 receptors. Schizophrenia is estimated to impact approximately 2.8 million people in the United States. Symptoms typically first appear in early adulthood and present differently.
  • While the current standard of care can be effective in managing symptoms of schizophrenia, up to 60% of people experience inadequate improvement in symptoms or intolerable side effects during therapy, making symptoms difficult to diagnose and manage.
  • Source: Bristol Myers Squibb

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