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FDA extends review of XenoPort-Glaxo pain drug

NEW YORK (AP) — The Food and Drug Administration needs three more months to review an application to a neuropathic pain drug being developed by XenoPort Inc. and GlaxoSmithKline PLC, the companies said.

XenoPort and GlaxoSmithKline said late Friday the FDA should complete its review of the drug, called gabapentin enacarbil, by Feb. 9, 2010. The review period was scheduled to end Monday. The...

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