The CDC announced today that healthcare workers in Tennessee and Indiana would be amongst the first to get swine flu vaccinations.  The outbreak of the H1N1 swine flu virus has sadly killed over 3,900 peope per a report by the World Health Organization (WHO) on September 25th.  At the same time the race to battle the pandemic has propped up the shares of biotech companies that promise solutions.   Read More

Investors are placing their bets on the next M&A deal in biotech. Where should you be looking?   Read More

The Dow and S&P rallied on Monday, snapping a three-day losing streak, as a string of corporate takeovers fueled optimism that value remained in the market.   Read More

How should you put money to work in the wake of this uptick in M&A?   Read More

ACC, ADA, AHA, ASCO, ICAD, TCT. That's just a handful of the acronyms and abbreviations for scientific and medical conferences that I've attended over the years. But this year I might be able to add RITA to my dance card. I'd never heard of her (it) before this morning when I got this press release from Crucell, which owns technology for faster, better, cheaper vaccine manufacturing.    Read More

To almost no one's surprise, for the first time in 41 years, the World Health Organization has declared a full-blown swine flu pandemic. But the declaration is tied more to the geographic spread of the virus than it is to its virulence.    Read More

Many of the stocks that moved down yesterday because of swine flu fears are bouncing back.    Read More

Here we go again. When I was relatively new on this beat I was thrown into covering the bird flu scare. At the time, many experts said it wasn't a question of if, but when it would come to the U.S. I'm still waiting. And I hope we're all waiting forever.    Read More

Concerns that the recent outbreak of swine flu could reach pandemic proportions dragged down the Dow and S&P Monday with investors hammering airlines, hotels and more.   Read More

Concerns that the swine flu could reach pandemic proportions sent money moving. Who wins and who loses?   Read More