The US FDA has granted accelerated approval for Nippon Shinyaku’s oligonucleotide drug viltolarsen, now called Viltepso, for the treatment of certain patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD). The drug was approved on August 12 for the treatment of DMD in…
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