Shares of Cardiome Pharma sank 25% in premarket trading on 21 October after the company announced that an unexpected case of cardiogenic shock forced investigators at its partner, Astellas Pharma, to halt enrollment for a key Phase III confirmatory study of the atrial fibrillation drug vernakalant injection.
The trial's independent Data Safety Monitoring Board reviewed the case and recommended the trial continue. However, the US FDA immediately...






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