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Just as Eisai notches wins in its campaign for lecanemab approval around the world—last month in the European Union, this week in Mexico—a dozen research and clinical leaders called on the U.S. FDA ...

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Driven by accelerating diagnosis of ATTR cardiomyopathy, sustained reliance on cost-effective chemotherapy, and rapid uptake ...