Cruel Summer: High-Profile Trial Failures Dominate R&D News Flow
This article was originally published in Pharmaceutical Approvals Monthly
Executive Summary
As the summer of 2012 wears on, an outpouring of negative clinical trial news for high-profile new drug candidates has made the season more a time of doldrums than of fun in the sun for big pharma.
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