After decades of stagnation in the drug treatment of schizophrenia, a handful of new therapies have raised hopes of improvement – but one of them has just failed a pair of
China's Luye Pharma has claimed its first FDA approval, getting a green light for Rykindo, an injectable formulation of the antipsychotic risperidone given every two weeks.
Encouraged by new data, Newron Pharmaceuticals has said it will start a registration study of would-be blockbuster evenamide in treatment-resistant schizophrenia (TRS) later this year.