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Shares of Pandora are up after the company reported earnings, reports CNBC's Seema Mody. And there are reports a deal between Valeant Pharmaceuticals and Bausch & Lomb could be completed as early as next week.
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Shares in the world's second biggest drug company, GlaxoSmithKline, are giving back all of yesterday's gains in early trading this morning. That's because sales of its embattled diabetes drug, Avandia and other Avandia-related products took a huge dive in the third quarter. Down 48% in the U.S. from the same time last year.
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Biotech giant Biogen Idec posted some disappointing third-quarter results, falling short of Wall Street expectations across the board. Does it matter, since the company has announced it's up for sale? Biotech analyst Christopher Raymond of Robert W. Baird thinks it does.
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Biotechnology company Biogen Idec, which put itself up for sale earlier this month, reported third-quarter earnings and revenue Tuesday that fell short of analysts' expectations.
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To a five-star fund manager, it's not how big the stars are, but how brightly they're shining. In the pharmaceutical field, Kris Jenner of T. Rowe Price finds brightness at both ends of the size spectrum.
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The cancer drug Erbitux unexpectedly extended survival in a trial of patients with advanced lung cancer, sending shares of its maker, ImClone Systems, soaring as much as 24 percent.
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Shares of Neurochem today are trading at a new low after the Canadian biotech announced its developmental drug for Alzheimer's didn't work well enough. It is the latest evidence that cracking the code of this complex disease is extremely challenging. We recently did a story on the drug called Alzhemed, the potential AD-drug market and other companies working on treatments/cures at a dementia conference in Washington, DC.
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Amgen shares plunged to a 52-week low on Thursday in the wake of the biotechnology firm’s announcement that it will lay off more than 2,000 and as many as 2,600 employees--or 12 percent to 14 percent of its labor force.
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Amgen said on Monday it has agreed to buy privately held Ilypsa, which is developing a drug for chronic kidney disease, for $420 million in cash.
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Biotechnology company Novacea and drug developer Schering-Plough said they signed a licensing agreement for prostate cancer treatment candidate Asentar.
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Another setback for Amgen anemia-drug franchise sent shares of the No. 1 biotechnology company spiraling down as much as 6.6% on Tuesday -- to a 2-1/2-year low -- as more analysts cut their ratings on the beaten-down stock.