Once again No­var­tis’ car­dio team looks to beat the odds us­ing sketchy da­ta and a fa­mil­iar ar­gu­ment

When­ev­er a clin­i­cal tri­al team starts tout­ing the “to­tal­i­ty” of the da­ta, you know they’re in trou­ble.

For No­var­tis’ En­tresto (sacu­bi­tril/val­sar­tan) team, that’s the ear­ly go-to po­si­tion on their lat­est round of piv­otal da­ta for the block­buster — which the phar­ma gi­ant be­lieves has megablock­buster po­ten­tial. We al­ready knew that No­var­tis’ team plans to field the drug to reg­u­la­tors in search of a la­bel ex­ten­sion — but now we have a bet­ter idea of the hur­dles it faces. 

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