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Healthcare: 3 Been-There-Done-That Biotech CEOs That Are Doing it Again

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4.6854 Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2017

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

After Puma Biotech's recent success, the search is on for other clinical-stage biotech stocks being run by proven CEOs. Could experience turn Aurinia Pharmaceuticals, Axovant Sciences, and Esperion Therapeutics into winners too?

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Thanks to Slack for supporting Industry Focus.

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Slack is a messaging app which brings together all of your team's communications

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in one place, making work simpler and more productive.

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Go to Slack.com to learn more. Welcome to Industry Focus, the podcast that dives into a different sector of the stock market every day.

0:18.0

I'm your host Christine Harjus and we'll be covering health care today on this July 19th show. I'm joined via Skype by

0:24.2

Todd Campbell full.com health care specialist. Before we get to the meat of our

0:28.4

show Todd I have to ask you a health care news question.

0:33.0

Did you read about the woman who had 27 contact lenses removed from her eye?

0:38.0

What?

0:40.0

Yeah.

0:41.0

So that's a little news item that crossed my desk courtesy of Chris Hill, who is the host of market foolery and Motley Fool money.

0:49.0

He sends me this link and he's like, I know you want to cover this on your show.

0:54.0

I'm like that's pretty disgusting but after enough convincing I did read through the article

0:59.0

and essentially this older woman had this weird feeling in her eye that she kind of just ignored

1:04.8

because she figured that's all part of getting older.

1:07.9

And then she goes to have cataract surgery and the people are going to operate on her are like oh my gosh you have 27 contacts in your

1:16.9

one eye.

1:17.8

That could not have felt good.

1:20.3

Isn't that insane?

1:21.8

No, no, all my word.

1:25.0

You just wake up and put it in and wake up and put it in and put it in.

1:28.0

Oh boy.

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