Tokyo, Japan, Nov 20, 2006 - (JCN Newswire) - Eisai Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Tokyo, President and CEO: Haruo Naito) announced today that on November 16 (U.K. time) the company’s UK subsidiary Eisai Ltd. (Headquarters: London, Managing Director: Paul Hooper) received a positive opinion that recommends a marketing approval of the anti-epileptic agent Inovelon(R) (rufinamide) for adjunctive therapy in Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome (LGS) from the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP), the scientific body of the European Medicines Evaluation Agency (EMEA).
