When it comes to Amgen, all eyes are on denosumab. That's as it should be: Amgen's future rides on the potential blockbuster. But investors shouldn't lose sight of Amgen's past and present: how the company manages the continued threats to Aranesp have important lessons for the biopharma sector as a whole-and for denosumab too.
FDA isn’t done with Aranesp yet.
That, in a nutshell, is what Amgen Inc. had to say about the future of what was once its...
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