Top 10 pipeline blowups, set­backs and sna­fus in H1 2016

Some years you have to stretch a bit to find a line­up of 10 no­table set­backs in the pipeline. In the first half of this year, I could have done one in each quar­ter and had a few left over for the dis­hon­or­able men­tion col­umn.

What we have here is a col­lec­tion of grue­some self-in­flict­ed wounds, more ev­i­dence that the home run swing looks good on pa­per and ter­ri­ble in ex­e­cu­tion and a new cat­e­go­ry: the drug that post­ed pos­i­tive da­ta but looked bad com­pared to the com­pe­ti­tion.

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