Sucampo (SCMP), Abbott (ABT) Get Approval for AMITIZA from Japan's MHLW
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Sucampo Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: SCMP) (SPI) and Abbott (NYSE: ABT) today announced that Sucampo Pharma, Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of SPI, has received approval from the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare in Japan for AMITIZA® (lubiprostone), a prescription medicine for the treatment of chronic constipation (excluding constipation caused by organic diseases).
“We are very pleased to receive Japan’s first-ever approval for a prescription medicine for chronic constipation as it helps us achieve our objective of bringing medicines with novel mechanisms of action to patients with unmet medical needs on a global basis,” said Ryuji Ueno, M.D., Ph.D., Ph.D., Sucampo’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. “We look forward to working with Abbott to meet the needs of these patients in Japan.”
In 2009, Sucampo and Abbott Japan Co. Ltd. entered into a license, commercialization and supply agreement for AMITIZA in Japan.
“We are very pleased to receive Japan’s first-ever approval for a prescription medicine for chronic constipation as it helps us achieve our objective of bringing medicines with novel mechanisms of action to patients with unmet medical needs on a global basis,” said Ryuji Ueno, M.D., Ph.D., Ph.D., Sucampo’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. “We look forward to working with Abbott to meet the needs of these patients in Japan.”
In 2009, Sucampo and Abbott Japan Co. Ltd. entered into a license, commercialization and supply agreement for AMITIZA in Japan.
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