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Biogen to Challenge European Rejection of Aducanumab
After receiving a “negative trend vote” by a key European panel in November, Biogen has now been slapped with an official rejection for its Alzheimer’s treatment aducanumab due to what local regulators see as a weak link between the drug’s…
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