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October 23, 2025
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STAT+ | Launch prices for new drugs 'significantly' exceed inflation and offer insufficient value, analysis says

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Advisers to the European Medicines Agency will certainly recommend against the approval of Anavex's drug for Alzheimer's, called blarcamesine.

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