October 7, 2016

FDA Approves Lundbeck’s New Drug

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Lundbeck’s Carnexiv™ (carbamazepine) injection as a short-term replacement therapy for oral carbamazepine formulations in adults with certain seizure types when oral administration is temporarily not feasible. Carnexiv will be the first available intravenous (IV) formulation of the antiepileptic drug (AED) carbamazepine, and Lundbeck plans to make it commercially available in the US in early 2017. Carnexiv is a short-term (7 days) intravenous replacement therapy for oral carbamazepine formulations that provides continuity of care for adult patients who are unable to take carbamazepine by mouth and have seizure types: partial seizures with complex symptomatology; generalized tonic-clonic seizures; and mixed seizure patterns.

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