Assuming the worst, AbbVie took an impairment charge a few weeks later of $4 billion as doubts also spread about the other drugs that came in with Rova-T that also used the same cytotoxic agent.

AbbVie Inc. (NYSE:ABBV) entered the obesity race last week when it in-licensed GUB014295 (also called GUBamy) from Denmark-based Gubra. The candidate is a long-acting amylin analog for the ...