Careful readers will note that in yesterday’s discussion of Roxadustat one of the big questions was what happened to the Pyrenees data and why didn’t FGEN disclose it?

This morning, AZN released the following statements, as paraphrased by Bloomberg:

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and

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So “we agreed not to pool the data BUT we ARE going to submit it”? The Pyrenees, peaks so high, but valleys so low.

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