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Vimpat Filed for Adjunctive Therapy for Tonic-Clonic Seizures: UCB/Daiichi Sankyo

February 28, 2020
UCB and Daiichi Sankyo have filed an application in Japan for the anti-epilepsy agent Vimpat (lacosamide) seeking an additional indication of adjunctive therapy for tonic-clonic seizures in patients with epilepsy, they said on February 27.The application is based on the…

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