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Amarin implodes, as Wall Street mulls negative Vascepa panel implications

 
• By Donna Young

It was a brutal day on Wall Street on 17 October for Amarin, whose fish oil pill Vascepa a day earlier was summarily rejected as a treatment for patients with mixed dyslipidemia at high risk for coronary heart disease and already taking statins.

It was a brutal day on Wall Street on 17 October for Amarin, whose fish oil pill Vascepa a day earlier was summarily rejected as a treatment for patients with mixed dyslipidemia at high risk for coronary heart disease and already taking statins.

Indeed, shares of Amarin plummeted as low as 64.2% before closing at $2.01, a loss of $3.16, or 61.1%.

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