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Discontinued Drugs Perspective

Why do trials for Alzheimer’s disease drugs keep failing? A discontinued drug perspective for 2010-2015

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Pages 735-739 | Received 29 Nov 2016, Accepted 24 Apr 2017, Published online: 19 May 2017

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