Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (MHLW) on March 5 unveiled the revised NHI prices for drugs subject to…
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Kyowa Kirin Applies for Novel Parkinson’s Disease Treatment KW-6002
Kyowa Hakko Kirin announced on April 2 that it submitted a new drug application (NDA) on March 30 in Japan for KW-6002 (istradefylline), developed for the treatment of Parkinson’s disease. Discovered by Kyowa Kirin, KW-6002 has a novel mechanism of…
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