That par­tial hold on Gilead­'s $5B can­cer drug? It's worse than we were ini­tial­ly told

Gilead’s trou­ble with its $5 bil­lion drug ma­grolimab is con­sid­er­ably worse than it dis­closed in a press re­lease last week.

Orig­i­nal­ly, the big biotech alert­ed in­vestors that they had to slam the brakes on en­rolling pa­tients in a slate of clin­i­cal tri­als that com­bined the CD47 drug ma­grolimab with azac­i­ti­dine (Vi­daza). That came af­ter the agency flagged an “ap­par­ent im­bal­ance” in the sus­pect­ed un­ex­pect­ed se­ri­ous ad­verse re­ac­tions be­tween study arms.

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