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PAFSC 2nd Committee Recommends Designation of Thalidomide, Imatinib Mesylate as Orphan Drugs

December 5, 2011
At a meeting on December 1, the Pharmaceutical Affairs and Food Sanitation Council’s (PAFSC) Second Committee on New Drugs recommended Fujimoto Pharmaceutical’s thalidomide, expected indication for erythema nodosum leprosum, and Novartis Pharma’s imatinib mesylate for patients with F1P1L1-PDGFRα-positive hypereosinophilic syndrome…

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