Surveyed Neurologists in Both the U.S. and Europe Would Welcome an Antiepileptic Drug That is Administered ...(7 ahead of the 2007 clinical gold standa...),Health

Date:1/7/2009

7, ahead of the 2007 clinical gold standard immediate-release Keppra," said Bethany Kiernan, Ph.D., analyst at Decision Resources. "However, Keppra XR, which has now launched in the United States, provides improved convenience over both Lamictal and immediate-release Keppra while retaining a favorable efficacy and safety and tolerability profile."

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Epilepsy: Opportunity Exists for Improved AEDs Despite Numerous Market Pressures is a DecisionBase 2009 report. DecisionBase 2009 is a decision-support tool that provides in-depth analysis of unmet need, physician expectations of new therapies and commercial dynamics to help clients optimize their investments in drug development. Driven by quantitative and qualitative primary research, DecisionBase 2009 combines market forecasts with clinical and commercial end points to assess market share projections in 35 indications. Each report provides detailed market share, patient share and price-per-day projections for emerging drugs in development. The market share projections are based on prescriber surveys that compare physicians' expectations of a potential target product profile with an emerging product profile of the leading drugs in development.

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Decision Resources (www.decisionresources.com) is a world leader in market research publications, advisory services and consulting designed to help clients shape strategy, allocate resources, and master their chosen markets. Decision Resources is a Decision Resources, Inc. company.

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