The right health care stocks can earn investors big bucks, said William Muggia, portfolio manager at Touchstone Mid Cap Growth Fund.    Read More

At the risk of being ganged up on by the "Elanians" who will take umbrage with the fact that the biopharma team at Cowen and Company is not initiating coverage of the Irish drugmaker with a "screaming buy," I am blogging about the analysts' 50-page call on the stock today.    Read More

Shares of Merck, which have lost more than a third of their value so far this year, are under continued pressure this morning. They were at 60 bucks in early January. Today they're trading around $37. Big pharma analyst Rupesh Patel at UBS is downgrading the Dow component from Buy to Neutral because he thinks it's gonna be "range-bound near-term"...    Read More

Ahead of the long holiday weekend I thought this would be as good a time as any to once again go through the "Pharma's Market" mailbag. A couple of blog readers complained about my "short" story about Amgen.   Read More

Benefits for elderly health-care providers might trickle down a lot further than you think.   Read More

In the world of nearly 400 publicly-traded biotechs, analyst coverage is especially important. Many of the firms are micro caps and when an analyst initiates coverage it can help put a baby biotech on investor and reporter radar screens.    Read More

Wall Street overlooks Washington all the time. And that's your opportunity.   Read More

Well, figuring out how to profit off it, anyway. Here’s Cramer’s pick.   Read More

Allscripts could see tremendous growth when a new Medicare bill is passed.   Read More

So, I can now safely say, with complete confidence, that Food and Drug Administration approval of the new Abbott drug-coated stent will not happen in the second quarter. Recently, at least a couple of analysts have been telling clients a decision was getting pushed out until the third quarter and one suggested that Xience won't be launched until Q4.   Read More