Europeans nix Amgen's Evenity over negative trial results

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Europeans nix Amgen’s Evenity over negative trial results

By Staff Report / Friday, June 28th, 2019 / Comments Off on Europeans nix Amgen’s Evenity over negative trial results

The European Medicines Agency denied an application by Thousand Oaks biotech giant Amgen and Brussels-based pharmaceutical firm UCB for the drug Evenity to treat patients with severe osteoporosis. The Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use, or CHMP, said that it was concerned about trial results that showed an increased risk of heart attack or…

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