March 19, 2019 09:20 AM EDT
R&D

Roche, Ab­b­Vie forced to slam brakes on myelo­ma stud­ies of star drug Ven­clex­ta af­ter re­searchers flag high­er risk of death

John Carroll

Editor & Founder

Two heavy­weight phar­ma play­ers to­day said they’ve been forced to stop re­cruit­ing pa­tients for all on­go­ing stud­ies in­volv­ing Ven­clex­ta (vene­to­clax) for mul­ti­ple myelo­ma. Roche and …

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