Japan on June 23 granted approval to a throng of new medicines including Bayer Yakuhin’s heart failure drug Verquvo (vericiguat) and the first oral treatment for spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), Evrysdi (risdiplam), by Chugai Pharmaceutical. The Ministry of Health, Labor…
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