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XTL Shares Nearly Wiped Out After Failed Nerve Pain Study

Nov. 19, 2008

XTL Biopharmaceuticals Ltd. said that a Phase II study of its bicifadine for the treatment of diabetic nerve pain did not meet any of its objectives, causing the company's shares to fall 94.4 percent. (BioWorld Today)

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