In an­oth­er blow to In­ter­cept, the FDA is in­ves­ti­gat­ing Ocali­va for po­ten­tial risk of liv­er dis­or­der

Just a month be­fore hand­ing In­ter­cept Phar­ma­ceu­ti­cals a CRL for Ocali­va in NASH, the FDA be­gan eval­u­at­ing the drug for a po­ten­tial risk of liv­er dis­or­der in pri­ma­ry bil­iary cholan­gi­tis (PBC) pa­tients. The probe, which launched in May, was dis­closed by the com­pa­ny deep down in their lat­est quar­ter­ly re­port filed with the SEC, and had not oth­er­wise been com­mu­ni­cat­ed pub­licly by In­ter­cept un­til re­ports sur­faced this week.

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