Please indulge Doc Gumshoe while he presents his musings on what’s going on in general in the health-care arena, and in particular, which new drugs are getting the FDA blessing and why, as well as which ones are getting the short straw. My impressions and conclusions are in some cases only loosely based on […]
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This particular bit of news leaves your friend Doc Gumshoe shaking his head in puzzlement. To wit, in the US it is expected that there will be a substantial shortage of physicians in the upcoming years. The American Association of Medical Colleges predicts that this shortage may reach about 122,000 physicians by the year […]
Chances are not many of us observed New Year’s Eve with celebratory toasts to the glorious year gone by. Rather, we bid goodbye to 2018 and hoped 2019 would be a better year – for ourselves, our near and dear, our country, and our planet. However, as I wade through the volumes of healthcare-related stuff […]
For those of us who live in this part of the country and spend any time messing around outdoors in the grass and weeds, this is the time to be careful about Lyme disease. I had a bout of Lyme 16 years ago, and it descended on me when we were on vacation, driving through […]
[ed. note: Michael Jorrin, who I call Doc Gumshoe, is a longtime medical writer (not a doctor) who writes for us about medicine and health a couple times a month. He has agreed to our trading and disclosure restrictions, but does not generally write directly about investment ideas. His ideas, thoughts and words are his […]
Remember Ernie Tremblay’s pitch about a “tiny South Texas lab” that was about to cure every disease using its revolutionary CD19 Cancer Vaccine technology, and ignite a bidding war following its fantastical release of exciting information on June 23? Well, it’s back. Not the stock, that’s still languishing around where it was before Tremblay got […]
[Ed. Note: Dr. KSS writes about medicine and biotech stocks for the Irregulars. He has agreed to our trading restrictions, chooses his own topics, and his words and opinions are his own. You can see all of his old articles and his most recent comments on his Stock Gumshoe page.] “Keep it quiet. (Go slow.) […]
[Dr. KSS writes about medicine and biotech stocks for the Irregulars. He has agreed to our trade restrictions, chooses his own topics, and his words and opinions are his own. You can see all his past articles and recent comments here.] The State of Things is a classy 1982 Wim Wenders film in which a film […]
The folks at Money Map/Money Morning have really taken the “most aggressive advertisers” mantle from the other Agora affiliates of late — we can pretty much count on a new promotional campaign from this publisher becoming the “most asked about” pitch by our readers almost instantly, whether it’s Michael Robinson or Keith Fitz-Gerald or Dr. […]
Newsletter copywriters are no different from other marketers: they will do whatever it takes to get attention by playing off of something or someone that has celebrity or notoriety. In the past that’s meant implying that some big celebrity investor has a connection to a “secret” stock or technique, or that someone high up in […]
[ed. note: Michael Jorrin, who I dubbed “Doc Gumshoe” years ago, writes for us a couple times a month on medicine and health issues. He is not a physician, but explains the science and the data well, and helps provide some background understanding and perspective that often benefits both investors and folks who are attentive […]
[ed note: Michael Jorrin, who I dubbed “Doc Gumshoe,” is a longtime medical writer (not a doctor) who shares his thoughts with Gumshoe readers a couple times a month. He usually does not specifically cover investment ideas, and his words and opinions are his own — his past columns can be found here] Lots of […]
Everybody’s got to deviate from the norm. —Rush John Galsworthy wrote that the beginning and endings of human undertakings are untidy. It was never more so than in the early days of HCV, a mere 20 years ago, when a plague first called “non-A non-B hepatitis” began vexing people, progressively scarring their livers and behaving […]
[Ed. Note: Dr. KSS is an MD and PhD who writes about medicine and biotech stocks for the Irregulars. He has agreed to our trading restrictions, and his words and opinions are his own. You can see his past articles and recent comments here.] You’re probably getting it right by now—writing “2016” and not “2015.” […]
[Ed. Note: Dr. KSS writes about medicine and biotech stocks for the Irregulars. He has agreed to our trading restrictions, and his words and opinions are his own. You can see his past articles and biography here.] “Many things you hear in this room are untrue.” (sign posted in Yale-New Haven Medical Center physician cafeteria) […]
This pitch is not all that tough to decipher for those who are seasoned biotech investors, but it’s generating a lot of questions for us today so I thought we’d get a quick answer out for you — it’s certainly a stock that gets plenty of attention, so you won’t need much of a head […]
[Ed. Note: Dr. KSS writes about medicine and biotech stocks for the Irregulars. He has agreed to our trading restrictions, and his words and opinions are his own. You can read his past articles, latest comments, and bio here.] We love when readers write in, and most of the questions, even though privately put, are […]
[Ed. Note: Dr. KSS writes about medicine and biotech stocks for the Irregulars. He has agreed to our trading restrictions, chooses his own topics, and his words and opinions are his own. You can see all of his past articles here.] “Who wants honey? As long as there’s some money?” —–“Cherub Rock,” Smashing Pumpkins, Siamese Dream (words and […]
[Ed. Note: Dr. KSS writes about medicine and biotech stocks for the Irregulars. He has agreed to our trading restrictions, and his words and opinions are his own. You can see all of his past articles here.] “All non-denial denials. They doubt our ancestry, but they don’t say the story isn’t accurate.” —-from All the President’s […]
[Dr. KSS writes about medicine and biotech stocks for the Stock Gumshoe Irregulars. He chooses his own topics, and his words and opinions are his own. You can find his previous columns here. Enjoy!] “And stepped at once into a cooler clime.” […]
[Ed. Note: Dr. KSS writes about medicine and biotech stocks for the Irregulars. He has agreed to our trading restrictions, and his words and opinions are his own. You can see his Stock Gumshoe page, with all of his past articles, here. Enjoy!] Welcome all! We’ll forego the food and beverages this time as many […]
Golly, most people who might subscribe to investment newsletters are baby boomers. And most of that generation is just a few years past their midlife crisis… so you can be pretty sure that a “silent epidemic” will get them to read your ad, yes? Apparently so, if the questions rolling in to Gumshoe HQ over […]
[Ed. Note: Dr. KSS writes about medicine and biotech stocks for the Irregulars. He chooses his own topics, and his words and opinions are his own. His bio, past articles, and most recent comments can be seen here. Enjoy!] OUT of the night that covers me, Black as the Pit from pole to pole, I thank […]
[Ed. Note: Dr. KSS writes for the Irregulars about medicine and biotech stocks. He choses his own topics, and his words and opinions are his own. He has agreed to our trading restrictions. Enjoy!] In his smoky baritone, singer Stuart Staples of British midlands musical act Tindersticks is bemoaning how he suspects the woman he […]
[Ed Note: Michael Jorrin, who I like to call “Doc Gumshoe”, is a longtime medical writer (not a doctor) who shares his thoughts with us from time to time, generally on non-financial topics in health and medicine (as today, though, he sometimes mentions a couple publicly traded companies). His words and opinions are his own. […]
“I firmly believe that if the whole materia medica could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind and all the worse for the fishes.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes, M. D., Professor of Medicine , Harvard “With all his conscience and one eye askew, So false he […]
The Zed Files[Ed. Note: Dr. KSS writes for the Irregulars about medicine and biotech stocks. He has agreed to our trading restrictions, chooses his own topics, and his words and opinions are his own. Enjoy!] It could be the premise of a tawdry unrated movie that teenage boys sneak glimpses of on Netflix when they’re home alone. […]
[Ed. Note: Dr. KSS writes about medicine and biotech stocks for the Irregulars. He has agreed to our trading restrictions, and his words and opinions are his own. Enjoy!] His tidily rhyming names perhaps destined him for fame. While Jack Kerouac’s work and popularity were before my time, his cultural and literary restlessness assure him […]
[ed note: Michael Jorrin is a longtime medical writer (not a doctor) who covers health and medical topics and trends for our readers, generally without an investment thesis. His words are his own, enjoy!] In the Doc Gumshoe blog about cancer that appeared in June of 2013 (you can check it out here), I commented […]
[ed note: Dr. KSS is a paid contributor to Stock Gumshoe who writes about biotech stocks for (and discusses them with) the Irregulars. He chooses his own topics, and his words and opinions are his alone. Enjoy!] Greetings fellow Irregulars! You’ve all been waiting for it….our first-ever annual ceremony in which we look back on […]
[Ed. Note: Dr. KSS writes about medicine and biotech stocks for the Irregulars. He has agreed to our trading restrictions, chooses his own topics, and his words and opinions are his own. His previous columns can be found here. Enjoy!] Every New Year, a friend and I flew to Boston. She’d gone to medical school […]
[Ed. Note: Dr. KSS writes about medicine and biotech stocks for the Irregulars. His words and opinions are his own, and he has agreed to our trading restrictions.] Want to see something really cool? A hot video clip from a steamy biotech thriller? Watch this. Better yet, when you pull up the video viewing frame, […]
[Ed. Note: Dr. KSS writes for the Irregulars about medicine and biotech stocks. His topics, words and opinions are his own. Enjoy!] It’s the second reel of conspiracy film Shooter, and Mark Wahlberg, whom government schemers are trying to frame for assassination, has just been shot twice. In the back of a stolen FBI car, […]
[Ed. Note: Dr. KSS writes about medical topics and biotech stocks for the Irregulars. He has agreed to our trading restrictions, and his thoughts and words are his own. Enjoy!] Here we are, solidly in the postmodern 21st century, “so late in the goddam day,” as one of novelist Martin Amis’s characters says, and what […]
[Ed. Note: Dr. KSS writes about medical topics and biotech stocks for the Irregulars. He has agreed to our trading restrictions, and his thoughts and words are his own. Enjoy!] Any discussion of cholesterol immediately turns Brobdingnagian, such are the extremes in question. Statins, which lower LDL cholesterol, are bombastically the best-selling drugs of all […]
[Ed. Note: Dr. KSS writes about medicine and biotech stocks for the Irregulars. His words and opinions are his own.] In A History of New York, Washington Irving opens chapter VIII thus: ”In which the author and reader…fall into a very grave and instructive discourse.” This may prove to be a more unleavened column than […]
What’s the commonest reason for admission to hospital of people 65 and over? Mull that question, as it provides context. Think of people you know. At least one probably has this condition. It’s not diabetes. It’s not heart attacks. And it is not infectious. But it kills and lots of people have it. Part II […]
[Ed. Note: Here is the latest contribution from Dr. KSS, who writes for the Irregulars about medicine and biomedical stocks. As always, he has agreed to our trading restrictions and his words and thoughts are his own.] The Belle of the Everglades How To Profit From The Cure First of Two Parts Of the many […]
[Ed. Note: Here is our second installment from Dr. KSS, formerly known as “karmaswimswami” in Gumshoe discussion threads. Dr. KSS has agreed to our trading and disclosure restrictions, and he’s not offering you personal investment or medical advice. As with all of our columnists, we don’t assign topics or opinions and do just a bit of light […]
[ed note: We feature the musings of our favorite health and medicine writer, Michael Jorrin, a couple times a month, and we’ve taken the liberty of calling him “Doc Gumshoe” (he’s not a doctor). You’ll find no stock picks in his pieces, but hopefully will get plenty of insight into the medical matters he explains […]
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$GILD just in - Gilead scraps a PhII/III study early as drug flops against ulcerative colitis by john carroll Septe...
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Is someone from Piper Jaffray reading us? We've said for a couple of months that Gilead ($GILD) should break up into a v...
$RGLS (long) http://tinyurl.com/z6qeum9 AbbVie ($ABBV) is touting impressive cure rates for its new daily hep C combo...
Leerink bullish on Gilead (GILD). http://blogs.barrons.com/stockstowatchtoday/2016/03/07/why-gilead-sciences-could-ga...
$ZFGN, GNFT-"Do you think anyone will give a flying faffola about NASH remedies like obeticholic acid from Intercept ($I...
Nice article on Gilead (GILD). One might wonder if Regulus (RGLS) is on their radar. http://www.fool.com/investing/gene...
Hi Everyone, I want to just take a minute to say I think the bottom is in on Gilead ($GILD). It's butting up against e...
Cramer 4 Biotech's to buy for 2016 include Gilead (GILD) and Celgene (CELG). http://www.cnbc.com/2015/12/23/cramer-bi...
Why Gilead ($GILD) and Roche ($RHHBY) Should Take a Good Look at Clovis Oncology ($CLVS) as Possible M&A Target By Mark ...
$GILD $ACHN Gilead (GILD) Rumored to be Eying Achillion (ACHN)...Again http://www.biospace.com/news_story.aspx?StoryI...
Thanks so much Doc. Gilead (GILD) is boss. Cheers,Glenn...
Frank...I am sure it has been considered in the loftier echelons at Gilead. GILD is rapidly trying to decide whether to ...
GILD-M&A soon maybe? Gilead More Open to Deals -- Market Talk 4/3/15 4:46 PM ET (Dow Jones) -- Gilead (GILD) Chief Oper...
Interesting trade put on Gilead (GILD) today. Investor could lose up to 1.2 million if GILD does not clear 111.50 in two...
Gilead (GILD) warns after patient dies on its HEP C drug Harvoni or Sovaldi with the heart treatment amiodarone.Nine pa...
Great article. Noticed the recent link between Arrowhead (ARWR) and Gilead (GILD). In your opinion, could a combination...
More good news on Gilead (GILD), posted on Barron's blog today: Gilead Sciences: Another Big Jump in Hep-C Prescription...
John Carroll (Fierce) reported this morning that, in a surprise move, Bristol-Myers drops U.S. approval plans for hep C ...
Currently my two favorite big upside safer small biotechs are Sinovac (SVA) and Cellceutix (CTIX). Two much safer big b...
Gilead (GILD) earnings beat: $ 2.36 EPS versus mean analyst estimate of $1.73 EPS. Blow out! 3.4B Sovaldi sale...
Check out this very positive Barron's article on Gilead (GILD): http://www.forbes.com/sites/kenkam/2014/06/06/how-gilea...
A digression to remind people that Gilead (GILD), large cap biotech or not, remains a screaming buy in my opinion. For t...
Siva; I recently noticed that Gilead GILD is a sponsor & advertiser of Nascar pushing their hepC product. Unlikely pairi...
To Winston Faust: One thing I think everybody here should do is use whatever software or site you use to track stocks, a...
DR KSS I well may have missed comments if you have already covered but is something going on at Gilead GILD. I boug...
Gilead (GILD)...
That one is Gilead (GILD), though the stock recently tanked and is crawling back from the dead!...