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Ovation's Sabril recommended for epilepsy

19 January 2009

USA-based Ovation Pharmaceuticals' Sabril (vigabatrin) has been recommended by the Food and Drug Administration's Peripheral and Central  Nervous System Drugs Advisory Committee both as monotherapy for  infantile spasms and as an adjunctive treatment for refractory complex  partial seizures where there has been an inadequate response to several  anti-epileptic drugs.

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