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

We're talking about health care today, April 4th.

My name is Christine Hargis and one of the Motley Fool's expert health care contributors

Todd Campbell is joining me on the phone. What's going on Todd?

Hi Christine how are you today? I am doing great I'm about to head on vacation tomorrow so

today is my Friday. Oh fantastic that sounds like a lot of fun you can do

somewhere nice and sunny? Hopefully I've been seeing in the forecast a lot of

rain for California and Hawaii which are the two places that I'm going to but I'm hoping it's temporary rain where maybe it's a couple of rain drops at like

4 p.m. But the rest of the day sunshine. We'll see you'll bring the sunshine wherever you go, right? I hope so. That certainly hasn't been the case in Alexandria lately, but that's okay.

Well, that's typical for April, right? Yeah, April showers. Anywho. So, so... Exactly. Japanese drugmaker

Takeda announced on Monday that they're looking at buying rival Shire sending shares

of Shire higher and to Kata lower is a very typical acquisition

announcement reaction.

Although this wasn't quite an announcement yet that the acquisition is happening, it's

just an announcement that they're thinking

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