The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (MHLW) on July 3 approved a batch of new drugs including Biogen Japan’s spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) treatment Spinraza (nusinersen), Japan’s first antisense oligonucleotide. Spinraza, which was designed as an orphan drug, earned…
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