Eli Lilly Secures Approval for Alzheimer's Drug Kisunla in Japan

Eli Lilly (LLY) announced that its Alzheimer's disease (AD) drug Kisunla (donanemab) has been approved for use in Japan. The drug will treat early symptomatic AD in adults with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and those with the mild dementia stage of AD, with confirmed amyloid pathology.Japan is the second major market in which Kisunla has been approved for use. LLY received its first approval for the drug in the United States this July.Both these approvals are based on data from the TRAILBLAZER-ALZ 2 phase ...