Prospects For Pfizer/Medivation's Dimebon Dashed By Phase III Flop
This article was originally published in The Pink Sheet Daily
Executive Summary
The drug's inability to show an efficacy benefit highlights risks of Alzheimer's disease drug development and pressures Pfizer to pull off some pipeline wins.
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