TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Biovail Corporation (NYSE:BVF)(TSX:BVF) marketing partner GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) today announced that Wellbutrin XR®1 (bupropion hydrochloride modified-release tablets), has been granted a marketing license in The Netherlands for the treatment of adult patients with major depressive episodes. The medicine is also considered approvable by the regulatory agencies of 21 other countries2 under the Decentralized Procedure.
It is expected that regulatory agencies in various European countries will grant national licenses for Wellbutrin XR® throughout the first quarter of 2007, and that the medicine could begin to be available to patients from April 2007.
Wellbutrin XR® is available as a 150mg or 300mg tablet, with a dose of up to 300mg once daily, starting with 150mg once daily.
Pursuant to the agreement signed in 2001 between Biovail and GSK, Biovail will manufacture and supply the product to GSK at a fixed, contractually determined price.
Footnotes
1According to GSK, Wellbutrin XR® will be the most common trade name in European countries. Other trade names include: Elontril (several countries), Voxra (Sweden) and Wellbutrin Retard (Norway).
2Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, and Sweden.
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About Biovail Corporation
Biovail Corporation is a specialty pharmaceutical company, engaged in the formulation, clinical testing, registration, manufacture, and commercialization of pharmaceutical products utilizing advanced drug-delivery technologies. For more information about Biovail, visit the Company’s Web site at www.biovail.com.
For further information, please contact Nelson Isabel at 905-286-3000 or send inquiries to ir@biovail.com.
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