Ironwood’s constipation drug gets European approval



Wed Nov 28, 2012 1:04pm EST


(Reuters) – Ironwood Pharmaceuticals Inc pronounced a drug to provide irked bowel syndrome with constipation has perceived selling capitulation in Europe.

The drug linaclotide, meant for adults, will be launched in Europe in a initial half of 2013 underneath a code name Constella, a association pronounced in a statement.

Constella perceived U.S. regulatory capitulation in Aug and Ironwood will sell a drug in a United States with a selling partner Forest Laboratories underneath a code name Linzess.

“We don’t see Constella’s opening in Europe as a poignant value motorist for Ironwood,” Ladenburg Thalmann researcher Juan Sanchez wrote in a note to clients.

Sanchez estimates that Constella could move in income of $189 million in 2018.

Shares of Ironwood were adult 2 percent during $10.98 on a Nasdaq on Wednesday afternoon.

(Reporting by Shailesh Kuber in Bangalore; Editing by Supriya Kurane)

Via: Health Medicine Network