Abstract:The first patient to receive olanzapine: A recollectionOlanzapine was approved for general use in patients with schizophrenia 25 years ago, in September 1996: however, the first patient to receive it did so in December 1988, by participating in a safety and dose-finding study of an experimental compound, then designated LY170053, developed by the Eli Lilly pharmaceutical company at its neuroscience research centre in Erl Wood, Surrey.Awareness of the superior efficacy of clozapine when compared to other antips… Show more
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