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About the News from Incyte and Vertex

Incyte: A Good Company Facing Irrelevant Investors’ Reaction  Incyte decided to stop an early ongoing trial of a combination treatment  ruxolitinib  (Incyte) plus  regorafenib  (Bayer) for colon cancer after observing the combination wasn’t working. Both drugs are approved for different...

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January 28, 2016

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Halozyme: Reading the News While Keeping Our Focus on the Promises

Halozyme Therapeutics (HALO)  seems to have closed the previously announced $150 million royalty-backed debt transaction with investment funds managed by Pharmakon Advisors and Athyrium Capital Management.  The debt is said to be secured by future royalties of ENHANZE™ products, received...

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January 27, 2016

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Theravance Biopharma: Launching Vibativ in Canada for MRSA

Theravance Biopharma (TBPH)  announced the commercial launch of VIBATIV® (telavancin) in Canada. VIBATIV is a once-daily antibiotic with a dual mechanism of action against Gram-positive bacteria, including difficult-to-treat methicillin-resistant  Staphylococcus aureus  (MRSA). The drug is approved in Canada for adult...

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January 26, 2016

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Revolutionary Approaches Towards Managing Chronic and Deadly Diseases

The Market is Surely Ignoring the Historical Summit  Biotech achievements are standing on Right Now     The latest biotech sector’s breakthroughs we presented was the novel powerful  gene editing  techniques  CRISPR/cas9  an d TALEN.  Our article in the Prohost...

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January 22, 2016

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OIL: A Blessing or a Curse? It Depends on What Some Want it to Be

Escaping the slaughter, or taking advantage of it, or  accumulating the stocks we love, or turning from positive to negative investors are all choices on the table. The problem is that the prophets stop prophesizing at times when prophesies are...

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January 20, 2016

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How Far Can the Market Go in Ignoring Gilead?

On Oct. 28, 2015, Gilead Sciences (GILD) announced that it has submitted a New Drug Application (NDA) to the FDA for an investigational, once-daily fixed-dose combination of the approved nucleotide analog polymerase inhibitor sofosbuvir (Sovaldi®) abbreviated as (SOF) and the...

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January 5, 2016

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Exelixis Has Good News

Exelixis Announces Positive Results from Subgroup Analyses of the METEOR Phase 3 Pivotal Trial of Cabozantinib in Advanced Renal Cell Carcinoma - The results will be Presented at ASCO 2016 Genitourinary Cancers Symposium this month. - Data further highlight clinical...

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January 5, 2016

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Steps Forward in the Management of Inflammatory and Autoimmune Diseases

Improving the management of inflammatory and autoimmune diseases has been a dream that seems to be happening slowly but surely in the past years. The improvement has gained energy and speed in 2015. The advancement in treatments has been demonstrated...

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January 8, 2016

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Of the Biotech Sector Selloff. Spark Presents its Current and Future Programs

Of the Biotech Sector’s Selloff Testing the lows in biotech firms’ stock prices is nothing but testing the biotech investors’ degree of vulnerability to fear. Fear leads many biotech investors to hysterically sell their stocks just by hearing negative stories...

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January 12, 2016

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News from Incyte and Gossip About Medivation

Incyte (INCY)   and  Eli Lilly (LLY):   Th e  New England Journal of Medicine published detailed results of RA-BEACON — a pivotal phase 3 global study of  baricitinib , a once-daily oral treatment for moderate-to-severe rheumatoid arthritis (RA). The...

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March 31, 2016

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