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Roche reported its Tecentriq drug failed to significantly improve overall survival in a late-stage bladder cancer study, raising questions about whether regulators may scale back their approval, Reuters explains. Roche won fast-track approval last May in the US for Tecentriq against bladder cancer but full approval hinged on further trials. “This puts the existing US bladder cancer approval in serious doubt,” Kepler Cheuvreux analyst David Evans wrote to investors.

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  • Medicare needs to get out of the erections biz. They stopped covering ED drugs in 2003 but carved out an exception for the pumps, which in hindsight was a mistake. Most of these gizmos don’t work that well too, as Hans and Franz said on SNL, to “pump you up”.

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