The Japan presidents of foreign pharma companies are no longer hiding their concerns about the stagnation of drug development in the Japanese market. In their business briefings for 2021, many of them made explicit criticism against what they see as…
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Aducanumab Gets “Negative Trend Vote” in Europe: Biogen/Eisai
Biogen has received a “negative trend vote” from a key European regulatory panel on its controversial Alzheimer’s treatment aducanumab, signaling that the drug could face a rejection in the region after the US FDA’s polarizing decision to grant it accelerated…
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