Yesterday, Amarin's (NASDAQ: AMRN) shares jumped by a whopping 20.9% during normal trading hours. The spark behind this eye-catching move northward was the release of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) briefing materials for the company's upcoming advisory-committee meeting set for this Thursday.
Come Thursday, Amarin and the FDA's panel of experts will mull over the putative cardioprotective benefits of the company's prescription omega-3 treatment known as Vascepa. The big deal is that Vascepa's addressable market would expand to upwards of around 9.5 million Americans who are currently on statin therapy but still suffer from elevated triglyceride levels.
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