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Roxane Laboratories, Inc. Announces the Launch of Galantamine Hydrobromide Oral Solution

Posted on: Monday, 24 August 2009, 11:57 CDT

COLUMBUS, Ohio, Aug. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Roxane Laboratories, Inc. announced today the availability of Galantamine Hyrdrobromide Oral Solution, 4mg/mL as of August 14, 2009. The product, indicated for mild to moderate dementia related to Alzheimer's disease, is available for immediate shipment to wholesalers and pharmacies nationwide. Currently this product is available as a generic from Roxane Laboratories.

Roxane Laboratories' Galantamine Hydrobromide Oral Solution is AA rated to RAZADYNE(R) (galantamine hydrobromide). Annual sales of Galantamine Hydrobromide Oral Solution are approximately $900,000(1).

Full prescribing information for Galantamine Hydrobromide Oral Solution is available on the Roxane Laboratories website at www.Roxane.com or upon request by calling Roxane Laboratories Technical Product Information at

1.800.962.8364.

RAZADYNE(R) is a registered trademark of Ortho-McNeil-Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

About Roxane Laboratories, Inc.

Roxane Laboratories, Inc. is located in Columbus, OH in a modern 500,000 square foot manufacturing and laboratory facility. The facility spans 70 acres and currently employs over 1,000 people. Currently, Roxane Laboratories, Inc. markets more than 75 medications in nearly 250 package sizes, focusing on an expanding line of Multisource pharmaceutical products including: bulk and unit-dose liquids and solids; coated, sustained-release and controlled-release tablets; nasal sprays, cytotoxics and CII narcotics.

Roxane Laboratories, Inc., is a subsidiary of Boehringer Ingelheim Corporation, based in Ridgefield, CT and a member of the Boehringer Ingelheim group of companies.

About Boehringer Ingelheim

Boehringer Ingelheim Corporation based in Ridgefield, CT, is the US headquarters to seven subsidiaries and a member of the Boehringer Ingelheim group of companies.

The Boehringer Ingelheim group is one of the world's 20 leading pharmaceutical companies. Headquartered in Ingelheim, Germany, it operates globally with 135 affiliates in 47 countries and approximately 39,800 employees. Since it was founded in 1885, the family-owned company has been committed to researching, developing, manufacturing and marketing novel products of high therapeutic value for human and veterinary medicine.

In 2007, Boehringer Ingelheim posted net sales of US $15.0 billion (euro 10.9 billion) while spending approximately one-fifth of net sales in its largest business segment, Prescription Medicines, on research and development.

For more information on Boehringer Ingelheim, please visit http://us.boehringer-ingelheim.com.

(1) IMS, USA MAT dollar sales ending March 2009

SOURCE Roxane Laboratories, Inc.

Source: PR Newswire

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