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A modification of the Japanese regulatory approval for Eisai’s Aricept (donepezil) to restrict its use in patients with dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) is a positive move that would promote the drug’s proper use, DLB specialist Yuta Manabe told Jiho…
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