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[DewDiligence]

[BG-12] Beats Copaxone with ease.

You evidently misread the press release. The study in question (‘CONFIRM’) does not have a direct statistical comparison of BG-12 to Copaxone; rather, in this study, BG-12 and Copaxone were compared to placebo and each was found to be statsig better.

Although the BG-12 arms were numerically better than the Copaxone arm on the primary endpoint of annualized relapse rate, is it wrong to say (as you did) that BG-12 “beats Copaxone with ease” insofar as there was no statistical test for such a comparison.

The trial description is at http://www.clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT00451451 .