Fast Personal: Health
Does your portfolio make you queasy? You may need to make some healthy moves!
We mean identifying and investing in trends that are at the cutting edge of medicine and more. But that involves hours of research to identify not only the noteworthy advances in health but also the most investment worthy.
Who do you know that can help you with that?
Tada! Your friends at Fast Money have got you covered. In celebration of NBC Universal’s Healthy Week, the traders put together 5 ideas for you.
After all, it’s our goal to keep you healthy, wealthy and wise.
By Lee BrodiePosted 23 June 2010
The Trend: Meds For The Masses
Searching for the fountain of youth? Look no further than your own master bathroom. In years to come your medicine cabinet may contain the secret to a longer, healthier life.
In it will be pills for perfectly healthy people; pills to keep the degenerative effects of aging at bay.
How can you trade this trend?
Already, AstraZeneca won approval to market its cholesterol-fighter Crestor to a new crowd: everyone - even folks with no cholesterol trouble at all. In turn that could mean a huge boost for other makers of statins, such as Pfizer.
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Click here to watch video from Monday's Fast Money when Melissa and the gang talked about this trend on TV!
The Trend: New Wrinkle In Beauty Biz
Until recently, you needed deep pockets to reverse those deep wrinkles but no more.
New non-surgical cosmetic procedures are proving to be extremely effective and they're significantly less expensive than face lifts and cheek implants.
How can you trade this trend?
Check out the growth projections for companies like Allergan (maker of Botox) and Medicis.
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Click here for video from Tuesday's show when we talked about this trend on Fast Money!
The Trend: Robotic Surgeons
What do Dr. Kildare, Trapper John and McDreamy all have in common? By tomorrow, they may all be out of a job. The hot trend in hospitals is robotic surgeons.
Why? Because they can make incisions even Hawkeye Pierce couldn’t see, resulting in fewer complications and speedier recovery times.
How can you trade this trend?
Intuitive Surgical, maker of the DaVinci System and the premiere robotic surgery stock, has experienced a surge in profits as hundreds of hospitals adopt its products.
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The Trend: New Diet Pills
Imagine the promise of a fantastic figure without the punishment of daily exercise. We’re talking to you Jane Fonda.
Three upstart drug makers are seeking regulatory approval for “safe” anti-obesity pills and they could hit the market as soon as this year.
How can you trade this trend?
Keep an eye on Vivus, Orexigen, and Arena Pharmaceuticals to see how their highly-anticipated new drugs are received.
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Learn more about this trend. Click here to see a video report from Fast Money.
The Trend: Mending Broken Hearts
A growing number of Americans are struggling with broken hearts, literally. And they have little choice but to undergo open heart surgery.
However, that kind of traumatic treatment may soon change. A new procedure allows an artificial heart valve to be threaded through the leg.
How can you trade this trend?
Medtronic has been at the forefront in the so-called "transcatheter valve" business and now Edwards Lifesciences is aggressively competing for a big slice of this potential multi billion dollar market.
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Fast Personal: Health
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