FDA Approves Sunovion Schizophrenia Drug

Marlborough, MA-based drugmaker Sunovion Pharmaceuticals has announced that the FDA approved its once-daily, oral tablet for treating schizophrenia. The drug, Latuda (lurasidone HCl), is expected to be available in the U.S. early next year, Sunovion said. The drug company has six other FDA-approved drugs, including the insomnia treatment Lunesta; Omnaris, a nasal spray for treating allergy symptoms; and a number of inhalant drugs for treating asthma.

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Erin Kutz has a background in covering business, politics and general news. She holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Boston University. Erin previously worked in the Boston bureau of Reuters, where she wrote articles on the investment management and mutual fund industries. While in college, she researched for USA Today reporter Jayne O’Donnell’s book, Gen Buy: How Tweens, Teens and Twenty-Somethings Are Revolutionizing Retail. She also spent a semester in Washington, DC, reporting Capitol Hill stories as a correspondent for two Connecticut newspapers and interning in the Money section of USA Today, where she assisted with coverage on the retail and small business beats. Erin got her first taste of reporting at Boston University’s independent student newspaper, as a city section reporter and fact checker and editor of the paper’s weekly business section.