Prohost Letter #458 ~ Obesity Finally, obesity is being recognized as a severe sickness. Indeed, obesity is several devastating diseases, which  include  cardiovascular diseases, high blood pressure, Type 2 diabetes, cancers, sleep apnea, breathing problems, and more.  Many studies demonstrated that effective treatments for the disease will treat all these sicknesses.  The good news is that we already have effective treatments. Part of the effective …

Rhythm Pharmaceuticals Rhythm Pharmaceuticals (RYTM): After soaring, based on great scientific and drug performance in treating genetic obesity, the selloff of the stock has occurred today after the firm’s announcement and pricing of its public offering of 4.8M shares of its common stock at $26 a share. Akero Therapeutics Akero Therapeutics (

Rhythm Pharmaceuticals is Rebounding Rhythm Pharmaceuticals (RYTM) announced yesterday, July 20, 2022, that the French National Agency for Medicines and Health Products Safety (ANSM) and Haute Autorité de santé (HAS) have granted pre-marketing authorization AP1 (autorisation d’accès précoce - early access authorization), for IMCIVREE® (setmelanotide), an MC4R agonist, for patients with genetically-confirmed Bardet-Biedl syndrome . . . This content is for paid subscribers. Please click here …

Prohost Letter #444 The End of the Year Issue was delayed because our 2020 Prohost Portfolio stocks’ targets for the year failed to materialize; nobody not even the authorities were capable of predicting the pandemic, which continues to plague the world. As 2021 approached, we were unable to the End of the Year issue on time as we lacked the information required for the fair …

Rhythm Pharmaceuticals Announces Successful Phase 3 Trial Results for Obesity In November 2020, when the U.S. FDA granted approval to the Rhythm Pharmaceuticals (RYTM) product IMCIVREE™ (setmelanotide) for obesity due to proopiomelanocortin (POMC), proprotein convertase subtilisin/Kexin type 1 (PCSK1) or leptin receptor (LEPR) deficiency, the firm has since announced positive results from a pivotal . . . This content is for paid subscribers. Please click here …

Rhythm Pharmaceuticals FDA Approval of IMCIVREE™ for Genetic Obesity At the end of the trading week last Friday, November 27, 2020, the United States FDA approved Rhythm Pharmaceuticals’ (RYTM) product IMCIVREE™ (setmelanotide). The product is designed to treat chronic obese adult patients and pediatric patients 6 years and older with obesity due to proopiomelanocortin (POMC), proprotein convertase subtilisin/Kexin type . . . This content is …

Rhythm Pharmaceuticals Rhythm Pharmaceuticals (RYTM) reported financial results and provided a business update for the third quarter ended September 30, 2020. The firm develops treatments of rare genetic disorders of obesity. The FDA has accepted the firm's filed New Drug Application (NDA) for it's product, setmelanotide, for the treatment of pro-opiomelanocortin (POMC) deficiency obesity and . . . This content is for paid subscribers. Please click here …

Rhythm Pharmaceuticals Inc Rhythm Pharmaceuticals (RYTM) is a late-stage biopharmaceutical company with a product pipeline that reflects its focus of developing treatments for rare genetic obesity. The firm’s lead product, setmelanotide, is a melanocortin-4 receptor (MC4R) agonist being developed for severe obesity and hyperphagia associated with rare genetic obesity. The United States FDA has accepted Rhythm’s . . . This content is for paid subscribers. Please …

The Market May be Plummeting But Prohost Picks are Not Biotech stocks had a strong start, but the gains disappeared in many stocks as the market demonstrated bearishness following a long-lasting rally. Currently, during the strong economic conditions, commentators attribute the reasons for the market’s upside and downside moves to China’s positive, or negative ongoing negotiations rather than to fair correction of overbought or oversold …

Prohost Letter #435 The Value of the Biotech Companies A Continuation of Prohost Letter #434 A Recap The biotech near and long-term values, we insist, must be based on the firms’ scientific capabilities, products’ potentials and financial results. In the past months the stocks evaluations by bloggers, and some assessors, have been tailored to mislead investors into serving the purposes of the manipulators’ weird agendas. …

Gene Therapy Stocks Experiencing Selloffs  Every investor in the biotech sector must have experienced selloffs of the stocks from companies specialized in gene therapy, gene editing, antisense, RNAi and mRNA therapies. Recently, bluebird bio’s (BLUE) stock was devastated. The selloffs occurred for many reasons, most of . . . This content is for paid subscribers. Please click here to subscribe or here to log in.

The Week in Review #41 We Are Still Witnessing … The bizarre market performance that started in early 2019: In the past couple of months the great enthusiasm and response of the market to the undeniably strong economic indicators and the lowest unemployment figures turned, for mysterious reasons, to a perturbed-looking volatile market beast. The biotech stocks have given back most of their deserved gains …

Rhythm Pharmaceuticals From Rhythm Pharmaceuticals (RYTM) we learned that positive, top-line results from two pivotal Phase 3 clinical trials evaluating setmelanotide, for pro-opiomelanocortin (POMC) and leptin receptor (LEPR) deficiency obesities, have met their primary endpoints and all key secondary endpoints. The product demonstrated a statistically significant and clinically meaningful effect on weight loss and reductions in insatiable hunger, or hyperphagia, in patients with POMC and LEPR deficiency …

Rhythm Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (RYTM) is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of therapeutics for rare genetic disorders of obesity. It is currently evaluating the efficacy and safety of setmelanotide, the company’s first-in-class MC4R agonist in Phase 3 studies, in patients who suffer from POMC deficiency obesity, LEPR deficiency obesity, BBS and Alström Syndrome. It is obvious that this firm has taken advantage of …

Amgen Higher Dividends For those who invest in top-tier biotech firms for dividend payments, in addition to the firms’ continued growth, Amgen (AMGN) announced last Friday that its Board of Directors declared a $1.45 per share dividend for the first quarter of 2019. The dividend will be paid on March 8, 2019 to all stockholders of record as of the close of business on February 15, 2019. This represents …

The Week in Review #28 The approval of revolutionary products created by biotech firms with solid scientific fundamentals, superior scientists and advanced technologies is what motivates us to pick for investment biotech and biopharmaceutical firms. So, let’s see what has been approved in the parting week  from firms that we picked for investment.       IMPORTANT APPROVALS       Prohost Picked Firm     …

Based in Boston, MA, Rhythm Pharmaceuticals (RYTM) – is a company focused on discovering and developing treatments for rare genetic disorders of obesity. It is currently evaluating the efficacy and safety of setmelanotide, its first-in-class melanocortin-4 receptor (MC4R) agonist, in Phase 3 studies in patients with pro-opiomelanocortin (POMC) deficiency obesity (which includes deficiencies in both the POMC and PCSK1 genes) and Leptin receptor (LEPR) deficiency obesity. Observing Rhythm’s research and trials …

Prohost Letter #414 GIANTS & DWARFS - We believe it’s a useful idea bringing The Week in Review into the Prohost Letter this time. We thought it would be easier for the readers to get last week’s updates and comments together with the Letter’s subjects and its Prohost Portfolio’s observations. In the Week that said au revoir, things happened that are worth citing. New development-stage …