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Healthcare: What's The Latest Buzz In Biotech

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4.6854 Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2016

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Shares in Juno Therapeutics and Amicus Therapeutics tumble on disappointing news; and one important drug at Pfizer takes a big step forward.

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0:00.0

Welcome to Industry Focus, the podcast that dives into a different sector of the stock market every day.

0:07.0

It's November 30th and we're talking health care.

0:10.0

I'm Michael Douglas, filling in for Christine Hardust,. I've got Todd Campbell on the line.

0:13.7

Todd, good to see you.

0:15.5

Hey Michael, how are you?

0:16.9

I'm pretty good.

0:17.7

It's been a good week so far.

0:19.4

And a lot of news and health care.

0:21.0

So let's hop right in and we figured today would be just

0:23.9

kind of a quick take on a number of different stories let's let's start

0:29.3

with amicus first yeah unfortunately that some of the news that we're covering this week isn't, it's always nice when we can be

0:35.7

the bearer of good news, right?

0:37.3

It's a mixed bag this time.

0:38.3

Yeah, it's a little bit of a mixed bag this week.

0:40.3

Unfortunately, we got two stocks that are reminding us as investors that we need to

0:46.2

diversify especially when we're talking about biotech and one of the stocks

0:50.1

that you know we're talking about here is amicus and amicus is a rare disease

0:55.0

rare a rare disease drug developer that already has one drug that's on the market

1:00.1

Galifold for use in a very rare condition called fabry disease. But that drug is only

1:06.7

available in Europe right now. And many investors had hoped that it would soon become available in the United States.

1:14.0

But instead, the FDA is requiring another trial,

1:18.1

and Amicus has guided that that's a good three-year delay

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