The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved BioXcel Therapeutics Inc.’s IGALMI (dexmedetomidine) sublingual film for the acute treatment of agitation associated with schizophrenia or bipolar I or II disorder in adults.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Marlborough, Massachusetts-based Sunovion Pharmaceuticals’ Kynmobi (apomorphine HCl) sublingual film for Parkinson’s disease.

Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has managed to stay fairly on track in terms of evaluating new drug and supplemental new drug applications. Here is a look at what is on the schedule for the next two weeks.

Shares of Aquestive Therapeutics were up more than 18 percent following approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for Exservan, a treatment for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).

Camurus announced that the leading drug dependence journal Addiction published full results from a 48-week, open-label, global Phase 3 study of weekly and monthly Buvidal (prolonged-release buprenorphine), the first long-acting injection medicine to be approved for the treatment of opioid dependence in the EU and Australia.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the first generic versions of Suboxone (buprenorphine and naloxone) sublingual film for the treatment of opioid dependence.