Dash for NASH trips up Gilead, but 'fatty liver disease' remains biotech target

A late-stage clinical trial by Gilead Sciences Inc. failed in fatty liver disease, the company said, sending a blow to a drug industry that has seen treatments for the disease as the next big thing. The Foster City-based company's (NASDAQ: GILD) study found that only a slightly higher percentage of patients with nonalcoholic steatohepatitis, or NASH, who received a higher dose of a once-a-day oral drug saw an improvement in the disease than those who were given a placebo. Even fewer patients who…
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