Forest Ready To File Antipsychotic Cariprazine With Bipolar Mania Results
This article was originally published in The Pink Sheet Daily
Executive Summary
Success in a Phase III trial in schizophrenia, set to report in Q1 2012, would mean a double filing in mid-2012.
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