The growth of a blood most cancers drug acquired by Gilead Sciences — the centerpiece of a $5 billion deal — has been interrupted by a doubtlessly critical security problem.
On Tuesday, the Meals and Drug Administration positioned a partial scientific maintain on 5 scientific trials investigating the mix of the Gilead drug, known as magrolimab, with one other generally used blood most cancers medication. The company stepped in due to an “obvious imbalance in investigator-reported suspected surprising critical antagonistic reactions” between examine arms in a number of of the trials, Gilead mentioned in a press release.
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