Dapagliflozin Faces Ominous Prospect Of New Trials
This article was originally published in The Pink Sheet Daily
Executive Summary
FDA’s rejection of Bristol-Myers Squibb and AstraZeneca’s diabetes drug dapagliflozin may mean new trials are needed, which would be a blow for the drug as well as a bad sign for the new class of SGLT2 inhibitors.
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