4 Top-Rated Drugmakers Reporting Earnings This Week
at Investor's Business Daily - Sun Apr 26, 7:02AM CDT
This week will bring first-quarter earnings reports from four top-rated large-cap drug stocks, and each is expected to report strong growth. On Tuesday before the open, United Therapeutics (UTHR) is expected to report revenue of $353.5 million, up...
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The Half-Million Dollar Income Project
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I Called It: What's The Take Home Message?
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Preliminary data show 100% SVR4 for Viekirax + Exviera
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AbbVie Presents Late-Breaking, Preliminary Phase 3b Data with VIEKIRAX(R) + EXVIERA(R) in Chronic Hepatitis C Patients with Renal Impairment at The International Liver Congress(TM) 2015
PR Newswire Europe - Sat Apr 25, 9:00AM CDT
- RUBY-I evaluates treatment-naive, non-cirrhotic, genotype 1 chronic hepatitis C patients with severe renal impairment
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AbbVie Presents Late-Breaking, Preliminary Phase 3b Data with VIEKIRAX® + EXVIERA® in Chronic Hepatitis C Patients with Renal Impairment at The International Liver Congress(TM) 2015
PR Newswire - Sat Apr 25, 9:00AM CDT
AbbVie (NYSE: ABBV) today announced new, preliminary safety and efficacy data from the first cohort of its ongoing, Phase 3b RUBY-I study. RUBY-I is evaluating VIEKIRAX® (ombitasvir/paritaprevir/ritonavir tablets) + EXVIERA® (dasabuvir tablets) with or without ribavirin (RBV) in treatment-naïve, non-cirrhotic, genotype 1 (GT1) chronic hepatitis C patients with severe renal impairment (stage 4 or 5), including those on hemodialysis. The primary endpoint of the study is the percentage of patients achieving sustained virologic response at 12 weeks post-treatment (SVR12). Patients who reached post-treatment week four to date (n=10 of 20 enrolled) achieved 100 percent SVR4 (n=10/10).1 RUBY-I was presented as a late-breaker today at The International Liver Congress(TM) (ILC) 2015, the 50th annual meeting of the European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL) in Vienna, Austria.
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Astra Deals Add To Ballooning Up-Front Payments
EP Vantage - at Seeking Alpha - Sat Apr 25, 7:10AM CDT
The brace of licensing deals unveiled by AstraZeneca (NYSE: AZN ) today are remarkable for their generous up-front payments - but not as remarkable as they might once have been. An analysis of the biggest up-front outlays of the past 10 years shows...
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Are Biosimilars the Next Big Thing in Biotech?
George Budwell, The Motley Fool - Motley Fool - Sat Apr 25, 6:06AM CDT
Biologics, or drugs developed from biological sources, have taken the pharma world by storm over the past decade or so. Five of the top 10 best-selling drugs in 2014, for example, were biologics indicated for either autoimmune disorders or cancer. ...
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Merck Reports Encouraging Data on HCV Combo Candidate - Analyst Blog
Zacks Equity Research - Zacks Investment Research - Fri Apr 24, 5:28PM CDT
Merck reported encouraging data from an ongoing pivotal phase III program evaluating its grazoprevir/elbasvir.
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AbbVie's HCV Cocktail Treatment Under FDA Priority Review - Analyst Blog
Zacks Equity Research - Zacks Investment Research - Fri Apr 24, 4:36PM CDT
AbbVie's (ABBV) experimental HCV treatment is under priority review in the U.S. for the treatment of adults suffering from chronic genotype 4 HCV infection.
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French biotech's B-vitamin beats placebo in Phase 3 MS study
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No Hiding From Respirageddon For Boehringer
EP Vantage - Seeking Alpha - Fri Apr 24, 11:49AM CDT
Given the hammering that US prices of respiratory drugs have taken as payers assaulted GlaxoSmithKline ’s (NYSE: GSK ) Advair it might come as a shock that sales of Boehringer Ingelheim ’s blockbuster Spiriva fell just...
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Merck's HCV combo shows cure rates of 60 - 100% in three genotypes
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AbbVie (ABBV) Earnings Report: Q1 2015 Conference Call Transcript
at The Street - Fri Apr 24, 2:32AM CDT
The following AbbVie (ABBV) conference call took place on April 23, 2015, 09:00 AM ET. This is a transcript of that earnings call:
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U.S. FDA Grants Priority Review to AbbVie for Investigational, All-Oral, Interferon-Free Therapy for the Treatment of Genotype 4 Chronic Hepatitis C
PR Newswire Europe - Thu Apr 23, 11:45PM CDT
- The New Drug Application (NDA) was accepted by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and is based on results from the PEARL-I study, which demonstrated up to 100 percent sustained virologic response rates at 12 weeks post-treatment with no discontinuations due to adverse events
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Biogen Earnings Preview: What To Look For
at Investor's Business Daily - Thu Apr 23, 6:45PM CDT
Biogen (BIIB) on Friday morning is expected to report earnings of $3.91 a share, up 58% vs. a year earlier. That would end a three-quarter string of accelerating growth. Sales should show a 25% advance to $2.66 billion, a solid gain but the fourth...
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Gilead (GILD) Announces Encouraging Data on its HCV Drugs - Analyst Blog
Zacks Equity Research - Zacks Investment Research - Thu Apr 23, 5:00PM CDT
Gilead Sciences, Inc. announced encouraging data from several phase II studies evaluating hepatitis C virus drugs.
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AbbVie's (ABBV) CEO Rick Gonzalez on Q1 2015 Results - Earnings Call Transcript
SA Transcripts - at Seeking Alpha - Thu Apr 23, 4:29PM CDT
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Pfizer's Once And Future Deals
Chris DeMuth Jr. - at Seeking Alpha - Thu Apr 23, 2:39PM CDT
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