Amarin implodes, as Wall Street mulls negative Vascepa panel implications
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Executive Summary
It was a brutal day on Wall Street on 17 October for Amarin, whose fish oil pill Vascepa a day earlier was summarily rejected as a treatment for patients with mixed dyslipidemia at high risk for coronary heart disease and already taking statins.
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