It is official: India is siding with poor cancer patients over profits for multinational drug giants. The Supreme Court of India has rejected a plea by Swiss pharma giant Novartis that ends the seven-year legal battle to restrict Indian companies from copying blood cancer drug Glivec. Novartis had filed a plea with the Supreme
Obama has been re-elected; “Obamacare” is the law of the land. It doesn’t matter if you agree or disagree with Obamacare, you might as well generate big profits from it. Obamacare has been profitable for us. We bought Amerigroup Corp. AGP at $22.05, and, as of this writing, the stock
A popular axiom among long-only investors is to “buy low sell high.” For those investors who are equally interested in making money from both markets going up and markets going down, the parallel axiom is, “short-sell high and buy-to-cover low.” In the short-term, the stock market is overbought, and it
In 1971, a Japanese biochemist, Akira Endo, started work on what turned out to be the next big thing in the prevention of heart attacks and strokes, known as statins. In 1978, Merck (MRK) isolated lovastatin from fungusAspergillus terreus. Lovastatin is naturally contained in red yeast rice, a traditional Chinese fermented rice