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Nektar Therapeutics (Nasdaq: NKTR) announced positive topline results from a Phase 2 double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled study of NKTR-118 in patients with opioid-induced constipation (OIC). NKTR-118, a peripheral opioid antagonist, is an oral once-a-day investigational drug to treat OIC, the most common and debilitating manifestation of opioid-bowel dysfunction (OBD).

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