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Amgen Files TED Drug Tepezza in Japan
Amgen said on January 16 that it has filed a new drug application in Japan for teprotumumab, an insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF-1) receptor it picked up through the acquisition of Horizon Therapeutics, for the treatment of active thyroid eye…
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