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Perphenazine is cheap, and Zyprexa is more expensive than the other medicines.
FORBES: A Victory For Lilly--With Reservations
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One grim possibility for all of the companies is that perphenazine, the cheap generic, will look as good on paper as the newer drugs.
FORBES: A Sea Change For Schizophrenia Treatment?
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One surprise for many was that the drug perphenazine, an antipsychotic that was discovered in the 1950s and is now a dirt-cheap generic, did as well as the other drugs.
FORBES: A Victory For Lilly--With Reservations
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In January the National Institute of Mental Health started enrolling 1, 800 patients for the study, which will randomly compare the five atypicals to each other and to an older remedy perphenazine.
FORBES: Silencing the Voices
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But John Newcomer, a professor of psychiatry at the Washington University School of Medicine, said the study should not be used to say older drugs, like perphenazine, are comparable with the newer ones.
FORBES: A Victory For Lilly--With Reservations