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Eisai CEO Confident in Leqembi Uptake, Says 90% of US Hospital Targets to Adopt Med by March-End
Eisai’s Alzheimer’s disease (AD) treatment Leqembi (lecanemab) is seeing a steady uptake in the US and is expected to be prescribed by 90% of its target hospital systems, called integrated delivery networks (IDNs), by the end of this month, CEO…
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