UPDATE: Two-month delay for Savient

23 February 2009

New Jersey, USA-based Savient Pharmaceuticals' shares plummeted 25% to $5.45 on February 13, after the firm said it had revised an application  for its gout treatment Krystexxa (pegloticase), causing a two-month  delay.

Savient asked for the drug to be considered in a two-week dosing  regimen, rather than four-week, and is now pushing for that schedule.  The Food and Drug Administration has extended its target action date  from April 30 to June 30.

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