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Schizophrenia: the new drug set to tackle the ‘cancer of psychiatry’

But the healthcare system in the US still struggles to provide adequate care for those with serious mental illness

When a rash broke out on the hand of a patient taking part in the trial of a promising schizophrenia drug, clinical investigator Greg Mattingly began to fret that it might be an allergic reaction.

Instead, it turned out to be a mark of success: the patient, in his fifties, had landed his first job in more than a dec