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  • Alcon halts anecortave development in age-related MD

Alcon halts anecortave development in age-related MD

20 July 2008

Huenenberg, Switzerland-based Alcon, currently the subject of a two-part takeover agreement from Swiss pharmaceuticals major Novartis (Marketletter April 14), says it has terminated the development program designed to evaluate the benefit of anecortave acetate treatment on the risk for developing sight-threatening choroidal neovascularization secondary to age-related macular degeneration.

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