Sucampo Wins Approval for Expanded Use of Amitiza in U.S.
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Sucampo Pharmaceuticals Inc. won approval to expand the use of its Amitiza drug to treat opioid-induced constipation in patients with chronic non-cancer pain. The approval spurred the company’s shares to the greatest one-day gain in more than four years.
The Food and Drug Administration cleared the medicine, already backed in 2006 for certain types of constipation. Sucampo, based in Bethesda, Maryland, has a partnership with Osaka, Japan-based Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. to sell Amitiza in the U.S.