Lilly’s Thanksgiving Turkey: Lessons From Another Failed Alzheimer’s Program
Executive Summary
There was nothing to be thankful about from Lilly’s disclosure that its potential Alzheimer’s therapy solanezumab failed to demonstrate significant improvement in cognition in a third large Phase III trial. But it does reinforce the wisdom of FDA’s standards for subgroup analysis in failed trials.
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