MSD K.K. said on October 15 that it has filed a new drug application in Japan for its allergy treatment desloratadine, a second-generation histamine H1-receptor antagonist, which will be comarketed with Kyorin Pharmaceutical once approved.The expected indications are allergic rhinitis,…
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