Steve’s Take: As another jam-packed annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology in Chicago wrapped up on Tuesday (June 6, 2017), with some 38,000 oncologists gathering together at… Read more »
The News: Novartis AG shares moved higher Tuesday (April 25, 2017) after the pharmaceuticals group clung to full-year earnings targets and barely beat analysts’ estimates for first-quarter earnings. The Swiss… Read more »
Among the top winners and losers in the healthcare sector last week, the following four were standouts and bear watching or acting upon, depending, as always, on one’s risk tolerance…. Read more »
The News: Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. (New York City) cut its earnings guidance for the year as the drugmaker contends with dimmed prospects for its top cancer drug after major setbacks… Read more »
Renewed whispers from Swiss drugmaker Novartis AG (Basel) that it could divest its struggling Alcon eyecare business reflect the latest step in dismantling former leader Dan Vasella’s vision of building… Read more »
The board of directors of Community Health Systems (Franklin TN) (CHS) has adopted a “poison pill” defense to make it harder for shareholders to accumulate a controlling interest in the… Read more »
