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The newly approved drug varenicline may help a significantly higher percentage of patients quit smoking than bupropion, according to Food and Drug Administration officials and others.
The drug was judged from early trials to show such promise that it was put on the approval fast track 6 months ago. "This is the first time we have had a drug that we can say is better than the other drugs," said Dr. John R. Hughes, a professor of psychiatry at the University of Vermont, Burlington, and a founding member of and spokesperson for the Society for Research on...
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