Federal health advisers have voted overwhelmingly against recommending approval of an experimental treatment for Lou Gehrig's disease, the fatal muscle-wasting disease.
FILE - A U.S. Food and Drug Administration building is seen behind FDA logos at a bus stop on the agency's campus in Silver Spring, Md., on Aug. 2, 2018. Federal health advisers voted against an experimental treatment for Lou Gehrigs disease at a Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2023, meeting prompted by years of patient efforts seeking access to the unproven therapy.
released earlier this week, in which staff scientists described Brainstorm’s application as “scientifically incomplete” and “grossly deficient.”
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