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Today is Wednesday, July 31st, and we're talking health care.

I'm your host Shannon Jones, and I am joined via Skype by

health care guru Todd Campbell. Todd how's it going? It's going really well. How about

you Shannon? How is your trip? Did you get to see any sharks?

No sharks. Lots of surfers though got to go out to California, Huntington Beach.

And thank you for whoever was on Twitter. I think her name was Lisa,

who'd reached out with some recommendations.

Highly, highly recommend Huntington Beach, California. My first time out there got a lot of sun, saw

a lot of surfers. There was the thing, the Vans, U.S. Open surfing competition happening across the street from a hotel,

so that was really cool, but tired but glad to be back here,

because of course, as soon as I leave leave we get merger news that happens and

more stuff happening in the marijuana industry so glad to be back Todd.

Let's just dive right in because for today's show it is about merger Monday

which held true this week news coming out of the pharma industry for pharmaceutical

giant Pfizer and generic manufacturer at Milan and then we'll also dive into the marijuana industry with more company headlines of the not so positive sort and some news in the

edible space as well. But Todd let's kick things off with Pfizer. So that is

ticker symbol PFE. It announced on Monday that it's joining forces in an all-stock deal with

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