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Page last updated at 09:01 GMT, Wednesday, 2 April 2008 10:01 UK
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Sickness drug extension approved

A syringe
The company believes sales of the drug will rise sharply

A Borders pharmaceutical firm has been cleared to market an anti-sickness drug in the UK and Germany.

Galashiels-based ProStrakan has estimated the total value of the German market could be more than £10m.

It already sells the drug - designed to treat post-operative nausea - in eight other European countries.

Sales of xomolix totalled £4.2m in 2007 and the company believes there is a "substantial level" of demand for the product in the new nations.

A total of eight countries are involved in the new marketing clearance.



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