Ex­pert pan­el re­view on Alzheimer’s drug ad­u­canum­ab be­comes a one-day tri­al by fire as crit­ics turn their guns on Bio­gen — and the FDA

Two days af­ter an en­thu­si­as­tic FDA in­sid­er re­view of Bio­gen’s ad­u­canum­ab pro­vid­ed a $15 bil­lion pop for the big biotech’s mar­ket cap, a pan­el of out­side ex­perts pro­vid­ed some fresh fire­works on the de­bate, with a big ma­jor­i­ty turn­ing thumbs down on the con­tro­ver­sial pitch that there are da­ta to prove the drug is ef­fec­tive — as well as the agency’s per­plex­ing en­dorse­ment.

Most of the ex­perts slapped down 3 ques­tions re­gard­ing whether there was any ev­i­dence to back the ef­fi­ca­cy of the drug — with a lone vote in fa­vor on one of the ques­tions.

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