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Thursday, the FDA denied Intercept Pharmaceuticals’ application for its obeticholic acid tablets, which the New Jersey biopharma was proposing to treat patients with pre-cirrhotic liver fibrosis due to non-alcoholic steatohepatitis.

The agency’s briefing documents highlighted increased risk of diabetes and liver injury from using the obeticholic acid oral tablets for treatment of nonalcoholic steatohepatitis.