Lou Gehrig’s disease

The vote by the agency's health advisers is a potential setback for patient groups who have lobbied for the medication’s approval for more than a year.

On Wednesday, a panel of FDA advisers is scheduled to take a nonbinding vote on whether the drug from Amylyx Pharmaceuticals should be approved.

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Researchers with the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville have found an abnormal protein that collects in the brains of patients who have Lou Gehrig’s disease or…