Escaping the slaughter, or taking advantage of it, or  accumulating the stocks we love, or turning from positive to negative investors are all choices on the table. The problem is that the prophets stop prophesizing at times when prophesies are badly needed. The prophets themselves are asking questions, rather than providing answers. The experts and officials who know better and were just claiming that the …

Of the Biotech Sector’s Selloff Testing the lows in biotech firms’ stock prices is nothing but testing the biotech investors’ degree of vulnerability to fear. Fear leads many biotech investors to hysterically sell their stocks just by hearing negative stories about the sector. The stock selloff continues even when the frightening fabricated stories happen not to make sense that convince mature people to believe them. …

Improving the management of inflammatory and autoimmune diseases has been a dream that seems to be happening slowly but surely in the past years. The improvement has gained energy and speed in 2015. The advancement in treatments has been demonstrated on several inflammatory and autoimmune diseases, including psoriatic arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis (RA), Crohn’s disease, systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and many other autoimmune diseases. Psoriasis   …

Exelixis Announces Positive Results from Subgroup Analyses of the METEOR Phase 3 Pivotal Trial of Cabozantinib in Advanced Renal Cell Carcinoma - The results will be Presented at ASCO 2016 Genitourinary Cancers Symposium this month. - Data further highlight clinical benefit of cabozantinib across subgroups of patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma   - METEOR data are the foundation for the U.S. NDA filing submitted …

On Oct. 28, 2015, Gilead Sciences (GILD) announced that it has submitted a New Drug Application (NDA) to the FDA for an investigational, once-daily fixed-dose combination of the approved nucleotide analog polymerase inhibitor sofosbuvir (Sovaldi®) abbreviated as (SOF) and the investigational pan-genotypic NS5A inhibitor velpatasvir, abbreviated as (VEL) for the treatment of chronic genotype 1-6 hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection. The NDA was supported by …