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  • Dow Gains Over 90 After Bernanke Testimony Wednesday, 24 Feb 2010 | 4:48 PM ET

    Stocks rallied Wednesday as the dollar pulled back and Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke pledged to keep rates low for a long time. Financials were among the top gainers.

  • Stocks Rally as Dollar Falls, Bernanke Testifies Wednesday, 24 Feb 2010 | 12:30 PM ET

    Stocks rallied Wednesday as the dollar pulled back and Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke pledged to keep rates low for a long time. Financials were among the top gainers.

  • Stocks Open Higher; Tech, Health Care Lead Wednesday, 24 Feb 2010 | 9:33 AM ET

    Stocks opened slightly higher Wednesday as the market looked for direction ahead of Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke's semi-annual report on monetary policy and the economy.

  • The Skinny On Vivus Wednesday, 20 Jan 2010 | 2:47 PM ET

    The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, the stock markets' self-policing arm, is looking into trading in Vivus shares around the time it announced its positive late-stage test results on its diet drug, Qnexa.

  • Vivus' Race Against The Clock Monday, 11 Jan 2010 | 2:30 PM ET

    Vivus is getting the JPMorgan Healthcare Conference off to a sexy start. The company announced this morning that its late-stage experimental erectile dysfunction drug apparently gets the job done in 15 minutes.

  • On Gaining More Impotence & Weightloss Drugs Wednesday, 23 Dec 2009 | 12:08 PM ET

    I can’t wait until this drug rises to the level where it gets on Joe Kernen’s radar screen because, boy, is he gonna have a good time (not just with the drug perhaps, but mostly with talking on TV about it.) A little TMI, I know, but that’s Joe.

  • Friday At The Fat Fight Friday, 30 Oct 2009 | 12:46 PM ET

    I end the week as I started it: blogging about Vivus and the three-contestant race to make a new prescription diet pill.

  • Vivus' Mr. Wilson Goes To Washington Monday, 26 Oct 2009 | 2:26 PM ET

    Patients on Vivus' late-stage developmental diet drug, Qnexa, lost an average 37 pounds in 13 months.

  • Stocks Up 2.2% for Week Amid Recovery Hopes Friday, 18 Sep 2009 | 6:04 PM ET

    Stocks resumed their ascent Friday, after snapping the week's winning streak on Thursday, as investors braced for a volatile day due to quadruple witching.

  • Stocks Back on Winning Path; P&G Leads Dow Friday, 18 Sep 2009 | 2:37 PM ET

    Stocks resumed their ascent Friday, after snapping the week's winning streak on Thursday, as investors braced for a volatile day due to quadruple witching.

  • Arena Adds Volume Friday, 18 Sep 2009 | 1:33 PM ET

    There! I resisted writing a blog headline that attempts some tired play on words with the Arena Pharmaceuticals' clinical trial acronyms BLOSSOM and BLOOM.

  • Stocks Rise as 'Witching' Stirs Volatility; GE Skids Friday, 18 Sep 2009 | 12:45 PM ET

    Stocks resumed their ascent Friday, after snapping the week's winning streak on Thursday, as investors braced for a volatile day due to quadruple witching.

  • Futures Edge Higher; 'Witching' Day Awaits Friday, 18 Sep 2009 | 7:40 AM ET

    Stock index futures pointed to a slightly higher open for Wall Street, with no significant economic news but quadruple-witching on the table.

  • A Rise For Biopharma In The Fall? Wednesday, 16 Sep 2009 | 12:14 PM ET

    Today is the 16th annual "Newsmakers in Biotech" event put on by Thomson Reuters and BioCentury.

  • The Qnexa Question Wednesday, 9 Sep 2009 | 5:22 PM ET
    Qnexa

    Some analysts had been telling clients recently that they thought Vivus' diet drug Qnexa could take the lead in the three-contestant race to get the next prescription diet pill on the market. But they didn't think it would take such a commanding lead.

  • Biotech Spec: Orexigen Therapeutics Thursday, 13 Aug 2009 | 9:10 PM ET

    This company’s diabetes and obesity drug could generate huge returns for investors.

  • All In The Family Tuesday, 14 Jul 2009 | 11:34 AM ET
    Mike and his sister.

    For years now, but especially in recent months, I've been covering the obesity epidemic. I regularly report on the statistics and the experimental drug data, detached and "objective" as I think any good reporter should be. It just didn't occur to me that the target population might include my sister.

  • Three Down, One To Go Thursday, 4 Jun 2009 | 2:34 PM ET
    Amylin

    In less than two weeks, there've been four pretty significant events in biopharma. And, hopefully, after ADA things will begin to settle down a bit for the summer.

  • Knocked Out Of The Arena Monday, 30 Mar 2009 | 11:27 AM ET

    There is no quid pro quo in my line of work. At least there shouldn't be. But when you do two stories on CNBC and another one on "TODAY" that mentions a company's drug and profiles a patient who appears to have been a "responder" in one of its clinical trials you expect a certain basic professional level of cooperation and assistance.

  • GlaxoSmithKline's New Ally For Alli Friday, 20 Mar 2009 | 11:28 AM ET

    Normally, the folks at GlaxoSmithKline keep us tightly in the loop when there's news. So, I'm a bit surprised that it took a "tweet" on Twitter this morning to learn that four days ago the company put out a press release that has "Pharma's Market" written all over it.