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Biotech / Medical : XOMA. Bull or Bear?
XOMA 26.87+1.3%Feb 3 3:59 PM EST

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To: Thomas J Pittman who wrote (11326)8/17/1999 12:57:00 PM
From: aknahow  Read Replies (1) of 17367
 
Changing endpoints after a trial has begun is not cool. Or after a P III is over and discovering your drug worked for something that you had not considered as an endpoint at the start of the trial also is apt to get a company no where. But in this case the FDA approved the change. But as I have posted and provided a link to it in a sepsis trial combining the endpoints does not make approval easier it apparently makes it more difficult to establish statistical significance for either morbidity or mortality. Again I do not know why.

So from this point of view the FDA would not have been giving XOMA a freebe or a pass. I am o.k. with the change in endpoints but think the question was legitimate since changes in endpoints need to be explained.
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