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AstraZeneca drug Fasenra fails to achieve main goal in COPD trial

May 30 (Reuters) - AstraZeneca (NYSE: AZN - news) 's first respiratory biological medicine Fasenra failed to meet its main target in a second clinical trial treating patients with moderate to very severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).

The drug is currently approved as an add-on treatment for severe eosinophilic asthma in the United States, the European Union, Japan and several other countries.

Fasenra failed to meet its target in the final-stage trial, named Galathea, this month.

(Reporting By Justin George Varghese in Bengaluru Editing by David Goodman)