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Ziopharm Oncology: Place Your Bets
Wall Street Teacher submits: Ziopharm Oncology ( ZIOP ): Update Recent price: $3.50 Shares Outstanding: Approx.
NuPathe’s price cut shows slow biotech IPO recovery
Conshohocken, PA-based NuPathe has cuts its IPO price to just $10 a share, the company announced today. NuPathe was hoping to raise between $14 and $16 per share for a total of $75 million
Web first place people go for health information. But you knew that already didn’t you?
Some interesting data from eMarketer this morning. The first tidbit was that the first place people go for health information is the Internet.
The fastest growing therapeutic drug classes
Oncologics, lipid regulators, respiratory agents, antidiabetics and anti-ulcerants are the five
Venrock gets lean and mean with $350M venture fund
Smaller and more tightly focused will be the style for Venrock Associates’ new fund.
Lilly CEO outlines deal strategy to beef up its pipeline
Eli Lilly CEO John Lechleiter has been making the rounds with financial journalists over the last few days, stressing that the pharma company will bet its future on a new round of deals with biotechs
Abbott Labs: Growth Stock With an Attractive Yield
Avi Morris submits: Most of the remaining 43 S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats have strong finances and are worthy of consideration for value investors, especially those who want to upgrade dividend yields. For example, the stock of Abbott ( ABT ), long time Dividend Aristocrat, has been flattish over the last 10 years, mostly in the 40s & 50s. Friday it closed at $46.46 with a yield of 3.8%
Johnson & Johnson Product Shortage To Last All Year
In an attempt to bury bad news late in the day, Johnson & Johnson this evening released a brief statement saying it does not anticipate having any supplies of the various pediatric over-the-counter medicines that were made its Fort Washington, Pa., plant. The facility, you may recall, was recently shutdown amid FDA scrutiny of various quality-control problems and a subsequent Congressional investigation (background here , here , here and here ). The healthcare giant’s McNeil Consumer Healthcare unit doesn’t expect most of the meds, which include Tylenol and Motrin for youngsters, to become available before the end of the 2010
Genmab CEO Drakeman bows out of the weakened biotech
A day after Genmab’s battered stock spiked following renewed rumors of a GlaxoSmithKline takeover , the American CEO of the Danish biotech stood down from the helm and was replaced by the developer’s chief scientific officer.
The Case for Pfizer
Bret Jensen submits: The bulls won Thursday’s session with one of the three biggest rallies so far in 2010.
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