Healthcare: Washington Cuts a Check to Spark Innovation
Industry Focus
The Motley Fool
4.6 • 854 Ratings
🗓️ 7 December 2016
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
The 21st Century Cures Act ignites innovation with perks to biopharma and medical device makers. Also, Kite Pharma and Novartis prep plans to pitch their CAR-T cancer therapies to the FDA.
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| 0:15.0 | Welcome to Industry Focus, the podcast that dives into a different sector of the stock market every day. |
| 0:21.0 | It is December 7th. I'm your host Christine Hargis and I have |
| 0:24.6 | Motley Fool Healthcare writer Todd Campbell on the line. How is it going Todd? |
| 0:28.0 | Hi Christine, how are you? I'm good. I feel like I haven't talked to you on the show for a while. |
| 0:33.0 | Oh, I know, I just, you know, it feels like the times that we have talked, we've been talking about, you know, |
| 0:40.0 | not the best of news for investors. |
| 0:42.0 | So it'll be nice to talk about a couple positives today. |
| 0:46.5 | Right, even the show that you did last week with Michael Douglas was kind of a bunch of |
| 0:50.7 | bummer news items. |
| 0:56.6 | Yeah, exactly, you know, and we've got to, you know, we've got to get it into the spirit, right? The holiday spirit, right? |
| 0:58.0 | Exactly. |
| 0:59.0 | Talk about some things that are positive going into the end of the year. |
| 1:01.2 | Tis the season to be merry. All right, let's do it. So we're going to the end of the year. Tis the season to be merry. |
| 1:03.0 | All right, let's do it. |
| 1:03.8 | So we're going to talk about the 21st century cures act, |
| 1:07.7 | which I think is very exciting and good merry news. |
| 1:10.9 | But first, before we get to that, |
| 1:12.4 | we're going to talk a little bit about a very important |
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