Healthcare: How Doctors Treat Dementia and Lung Cancer Could Be About to Change
Industry Focus
The Motley Fool
4.6 • 854 Ratings
🗓️ 11 September 2019
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Acadia Pharmaceuticals' dementia-related psychosis trial offers new hope to patients diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. Also, results from a lung cancer trial just strengthened Eli Lilly's leadership in precision medicine.
Stocks: ACAD, LLY
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| 0:20.7 | 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, September the 11th, and we're talking health care. |
| 0:31.0 | Todd Campbell, health care guru joining us via Skype. Todd how you doing over there? |
| 0:36.1 | It's good there this is a health care show because I think I need some health care |
| 0:40.5 | I'm battling a cold listener I apologize apologize. I'm going to do my best here |
| 0:44.2 | to get us through some interesting subject matter. Just bear with me a little bit. |
| 0:48.6 | Yes, yes. And actually Dodd, I know you're under the weather today, but I'm hoping you'll feel better because we've got lots |
| 0:54.6 | of good news for you to digest this week in the biotech space. |
| 0:58.5 | You know, often we're talking about pipeline blow-ups, bad study results, all kind of craziness in the health care |
| 1:05.4 | sector. So it's always nice to have a show where we've got some really good positive |
| 1:10.4 | data coming out of the space. |
| 1:12.8 | So with that, let's kick it off. |
| 1:14.7 | I want to start with Acadia Pharmaceuticals, |
| 1:17.2 | that's ticker symbol ACAD |
| 1:19.9 | for our listeners out there. |
| 1:21.6 | It's a commercial stage biotech that specializes in CNS |
| 1:26.0 | central nervous system disorders. Currently sports a market cap of about 5.9 |
| 1:30.8 | billion dollars. Stock is up 156% year to date this year Todd. Pretty amazing |
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