Oct. 5 (Bloomberg) -- Gedeon Richter Nyrt., Hungary’s biggest drugmaker, and Forest Laboratories Inc. reported today “positive” results from a Phase III clinical trial of cariprazine, an antipsychotic agent.

Data showed that patients with acute manic episodes who were treated with cariprazine “experienced significant symptom improvement compared with placebo-treated patients,” the two companies said in a statement posted on the website of the Budapest Stock Exchange today.

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