MRK Tredaptive post-mortem: Give the FDA credit for rejecting the Tredaptive* NDA almost five years ago and insisting on an outcomes study even though the prior phase-3 trial using lipid endpoints was nominally a success (#msg-30170058, #msg-28864222).
*f/k/a Cordaptive, MK-0524.
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