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Saturday, December 17, 2011

Safety (Still) Trumps Acquisitions in Hep C

The euphoria over Gilead Sciences' (Nasdaq: GILD ) acquisition of Pharmasset (Nasdaq: VRUS ) and Roche's purchase of Anadys Pharmaceuticals seems to have caused memory loss in investors.

But they got a reminder of reality today, when Pharmasset announced it was discontinuing all treatment arms in one of its phase 2b trials that contain the drug PSI-938. The drug candidate caused laboratory abnormalities in tests associated with liver function.

This is nothing new.

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