Doc Gumshoe's June 2023 Short Takes

Doc Gumshoe finds the optimistic bits...

Updates on Alzheimer's Disease, Anti-Inflammatories, Prostate Cancer, Vitamin D and more...

Will this latest tease benefit from the "Historic biotech merger wave?"

Doc Gumshoe looks at infections, weight-loss drugs, cataracts and dementia, Vitamin D supplements and more...

Most of this Doc Gumshoe posting was ready to go a couple of days before Thanksgiving. But then, you know what happened: the new variant (now named Omicron) surfaced in South Africa. So I finished up another Doc Gumshoe epistle that I had been working on and quickly got it to Travis so I could […]

I was hoping to keep COVID-19 out of this piece, but new things keep flooding in, and I can’t totally ignore them. However, I’ll save them to the end of the story. They are both “good news,” more or less, and I like to leave you with a bit of cheer, when possible. Sleep and […]

A few buys in the Real Money Portfolio, plus check-ins on safer SPAC prices, quarters from BOMN and CHWY, and much more...

What's being teased in the Breakthrough Wealth pitch from Dylan Jovine?

Thinking about COVID-19 almost gives me a migraine, or at least a heavy and achy sensation in my noggin – perhaps not an actual migraine, thankfully, but threatening and unpleasant all the same.   Happily, thinking about migraines will not give me COVID-19.   But migraines are by no means a topic of no consequence, […]

Part Two of Doc Gumshoe's look at Cancer in 2019

Doc Gumshoe looks at pollution, vaccination, and the WHO's priorities and plans

Putting the name of this imperious disease in the title of my homily places a weighty responsibility on me.   Who am I to attempt to put forth relevant information and sensible opinions on this topic, the mere mention of which makes most normal folk distinctly uneasy?   But I probably pay more attention to […]

Doc Gumshoe on Coffee vs. Energy Drinks, Opioid Tapering, Smallpox, Vaccinations, Lyme Disease, HIV and more...

Hope for migraneurs? Doc Gumshoe takes another look

Glenn Newberry in an earlier post today was asking whether Benlysta from GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), being trialled for lupus nephritis, poses any threat to Aurinia (AUPH). Benlysta is a monoclonal antibody that binds to and inhibits BAFF (B-cell activating factor). A company called Anthera (ANTH) is trialling blisibimod, an oral agent that does the same thing. […]

Doc Gumshoe finishes his series on Alzheimer's Disease

[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. […]

The New Metabolomics, Second in a Series

[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 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 […]

DR. KSS ON THREE NEW COMPANIES FOR POTENTIAL PROFIT FROM PAIN

Doc Gumshoe's take on Ebola

DR. KSS LOOKS AT EBOLA AND THE DRUGS TO COMBAT IT

[Ed. Note: Dr. KSS writes about medicine and biotech stocks for the Irregulars. His words and opinions are his own. Enjoy!] In the Saturday morning Looney Tunes many of us saw as children, one trope always stuck with me: that of the grand piano falling from way up high and crashing, splintering itself. There’s a […]

Second of Two Parts

DR. KSS TAKES ON ANTIBIOTICS

Today we’re sharing another piece from our medical contributor, “Doc Gumshoe” — we have added the stock tickers to the companies he mentions for your researching convenience, but this survey of the state of cancer research — which will hopefully be good background help to folks trying to understand the basic science behind pitches for […]