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Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (NYSE and TASE: TEVA) today announced the publication of results from the Phase III study, AIM-TD (Addressing Involuntary Movements in Tardive Dyskinesia), in the medical journal, The Lancet Psychiatry. The AIM-TD study evaluated the safety, efficacy and tolerability of the investigational use of fixed-dose deutetrabenazine (SD-809) compared to placebo for the treatment of tardive dyskinesia (TD).

“TD is a chronic condition that affects patients who are suffering from primary psychiatric illnesses, which are already debilitating and can be socially isolating,” said Michael Hayden, M.D., Ph.D., President of Global R&D and Chief Scientific Officer at Teva. “We are pleased to share this publication with the psychiatry and movement disorder community, who play a critical role in the identification and treatment of hyperkinetic movement disorders like TD.”

Deutetrabenazine for treatment of involuntary movements in patients with tardive dyskinesia (AIM-TD): a double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled, phase 3 trial was published online ahead of print in The Lancet Psychiatry. The AIM-TD study and publication was led by Principal Investigators Karen E. Anderson, M.D., Associate Professor of Psychiatry & Neurology at Georgetown MedStar University Hospital, and Hubert Fernandez, M.D., Professor of Neurology at the Center for Neurological Restoration at the Cleveland Clinic.

About the AIM-TD Study

AIM-TD was a Phase III, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, parallel group, fixed-dose study that evaluated 222 male and female adults with moderate to severe TD. All patients had a total motor Abnormal Involuntary Movement Scale (AIMS) ≥ 6 at screening and were randomized at baseline in a 1:1:1:1 ratio to receive one of three fixed-dose regimens of deutetrabenazine (12 mg/day, 24 mg/day, or 36 mg/day) or placebo. Patients underwent dose escalation during the initial 4 weeks, followed by an 8-week maintenance period and a 1-week washout.

About Tardive Dyskinesia

Tardive dyskinesia is a movement disorder characterized by repetitive and uncontrollable movements of the tongue, lips, face, trunk and extremities. The often debilitating disorder affects about 500,000 people in the United States and is usually a result of treatment with widely used medications for psychiatric conditions such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder or the gastrointestinal agent, metoclopramide.

About Deutetrabenazine

Deutetrabenazine, an investigational treatment for tardive dyskinesia, is an oral, small molecule inhibitor of vesicular monoamine 2 transporter, or VMAT2, that is designed to regulate the levels of a specific neurotransmitter, dopamine, in the brain. Deutetrabenazine is approved in the United States for the treatment of chorea associated with Huntington’s disease.

About Teva

Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (NYSE and TASE: TEVA) is a leading global pharmaceutical company that delivers high-quality, patient-centric healthcare solutions used by approximately 200 million patients in 100 markets every day. Headquartered in Israel, Teva is the world’s largest generic medicines producer, leveraging its portfolio of more than 1,800 molecules to produce a wide range of generic products in nearly every therapeutic area. In specialty medicines, Teva has the world-leading innovative treatment for multiple sclerosis as well as late-stage development programs for other disorders of the central nervous system, including movement disorders, migraine, pain and neurodegenerative conditions, as well as a broad portfolio of respiratory products. Teva is leveraging its generics and specialty capabilities in order to seek new ways of addressing unmet patient needs by combining drug development with devices, services and technologies. Teva's net revenues in 2016 were $21.9 billion. For more information, visit www.tevapharm.com.

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This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 regarding deutetrabenazine, which are based on management’s current beliefs and expectations and are subject to substantial risks and uncertainties, both known and unknown, that could cause our future results, performance or achievements to differ significantly from that expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Important factors that could cause or contribute to such differences include risks relating to:

• challenges inherent in product research and development, including uncertainty of clinical success and obtaining regulatory approvals;
• our specialty medicines business, including: competition for our specialty products, especially Copaxone^®, our leading medicine, which faces competition from existing and potential additional generic versions and orally-administered alternatives; our ability to achieve expected results from investments in our product pipeline; competition from companies with greater resources and capabilities; and the effectiveness of our patents and other measures to protect our intellectual property rights;
• our business and operations in general, including: our ability to develop and commercialize additional pharmaceutical products; manufacturing or quality control problems, which may damage our reputation for quality production and require costly remediation; interruptions in our supply chain; disruptions of our or third party information technology systems or breaches of our data security; the restructuring of our manufacturing network, including potential related labor unrest; the impact of continuing consolidation of our distributors and customers; and variations in patent laws that may adversely affect our ability to manufacture our products;
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