Positive Japanese data could lead to istradefylline's first approval
This article was originally published in Scrip
Executive Summary
Kyowa Hakko Kirin's troubled Parkinson's disease drug istradefylline (KW-6002) is moving towards an approval filing in Japan after meeting its primary endpoint in a local Phase III study.
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