Healthcare: Biogen's Alzheimer's Drug Goes From Bust To Boon, Plus Why Walgreen's Shuttering 200 Healthcare Clinics

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🗓️ 30 October 2019

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Biogen's drug pipeline took a massive hit earlier this year when it stopped development of its Alzheimer's disease drug, aducanumab, for a lack of efficacy. Now, Biogen says new data shows it may work after all. Can this drug pass muster with regulators? Also, Walgreen's is closing retail clinics within its stores, but that doesn't mean it's giving up on plans to offer more healthcare services entirely.

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0:19.0	Welcome to Industry Focus, the podcast that dives into a different sector of the stock market every single day.
0:27.0	Today is Wednesday, October the 30th, and we're talking health care.
0:31.0	Todd Campbell,
0:32.6	health care guru joining us via Skype.
0:35.0	Todd, how's it going on this day before Halloween?
0:38.1	Oh, it's goishly great.
0:41.3	Shannon, how are you?
0:42.8	I am doing well.
0:44.1	I know that you in the Campbell household go all out for Halloween.
0:49.2	So we must know.
0:50.8	We must know what is happening 2019 for you all.
0:55.0	Well you know the funny thing is that you know that I set the stage to the stakes
0:59.2	really high last year so this year I did something just really really bizarre and most of our
1:03.8	issues would have to but it was kind of like a like a mailbox in a delivery
1:09.5	for my mailman came to our Halloween party so he came as the mailman, I was a mailbox.
1:14.7	So he would come walking around giving me beverages inside my.
1:19.8	Wow, Todd, you always outdo yourself. I must say, I'm always just so impressed by the creativity I see on that, but I'm excited for today's show because, well, we're going to take this Halloween theme on through.
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