Asenapine Maleate and Velcade

• Generic Name: asenapine
• Dosage Forms: n.a.
• Other Brand Names: Saphris, Saphris Black Cherry

Acute and maintenance treatment of schizophrenia in adults.

American Psychiatric Association (APA) considers most atypical antipsychotic agents first-line drugs for management of the acute phase of schizophrenia (including first psychotic episodes).

Patients who do not respond to or tolerate one drug may be successfully treated with an agent from a different class or with a different adverse effect profile.

Acute treatment as monotherapy or adjunctive therapy with lithium or valproate of manic or mixed episodes associated with bipolar I disorder (with or without psychotic features).

Maintenance treatment as monotherapy of bipolar I disorder.

• Generic Name: bortezomib
• Dosage Forms: injection, powder, lyophilized, for solution
• Other Brand Names: Velcade

Velcade (bortezomib) interferes with the growth of some cancer cells and keeps them from spreading in your body.

Velcade is used to treat multiple myeloma and mantle cell lymphoma.

Velcade is sometimes given after other cancer medications have been tried without successful treatment.