Healthcare New Highs: Gilead Sciences (NASDAQ:GILD), Baxter International (NYSE:BAX), WellPoint (NYSE:WLP), The Cooper Companies, Inc. (NYSE:COO), iKang Healthcare (NASDAQ:KANG)

Gilead Sciences, Inc. (NASDAQ:GILD) on June 15 announced topline results from a Phase 3 clinical trial (GS-US-337-0113) in Japan evaluating the investigational once-daily fixed-dose combination of the NS5A inhibitor ledipasvir (LDV) 90 mg and the nucleotide analog polymerase inhibitor sofosbuvir (SOF) 400 mg, with and without ribavirin (RBV), for the treatment of genotype 1 chronic…

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Healthcare Insider Buying: Opko Health (NYSE:OPK), American Apparel (NYSEMKT:APP), Accelerate Diagnostics Inc (NASDAQ:AXDX), Biota Pharmaceuticals Inc (NASDAQ:BOTA), Echo Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ:ECTE)

Opko Health (NYSE:OPK) CEO Phillip Md Et Al Frost purchased 30,000 shares of the stock in a transaction dated Tuesday, July 8th. The shares were purchased at an average price of $8.58 per share, for a total transaction of $257,400.00. Following the completion of the transaction, the chief executive officer now directly owns 1,987,500 shares…

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Healthcare Insider Selling: Illumina (NASDAQ:ILMN), Raptor Pharmaceutical (NASDAQ:RPTP), Stryker Corporation (NYSE:SYK), United Therapeutics Corporation (NASDAQ:UTHR), CareFusion Corporation (NYSE:CFN)

Illumina (NASDAQ:ILMN) Director Daniel Bradbury sold 2,100 shares of the stock on the open market in a transaction dated Tuesday, July 8th. The shares were sold at an average price of $172.89, for a total value of $363,069.00. Following the sale, the director now directly owns 12,466 shares in the company, valued at approximately $2,155,247….

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Top Movers: Tesla Motors Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA), Nokia Corporation (ADR) (NYSE:NOK), First Solar (NASDAQ:FSLR), Hanwha Solarone (NASDAQ:HSOL), ReneSola (NYSE:SOL)

Tesla Motors Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA) has opened its first Supercharger in France earlier this month. The Supercharger is located in Auxerre. It has two spots with total output of 135 kW. It appears to be one of the temporary mobile units. There is one more charging point (3-phase AC with 2x 22 kWs) next to the…

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Active Stock : Facebook (NASDAQ FB) brings down Lecpetex Botnet

In an interesting development, Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) helped bring down a botnet called Lecpetex. This story shows both the growing sophistication of hackers and the difficulty of getting people to follow straightforward security protocols. Facebook reported that People downloaded and ran .exe files from spam messages despite years of warnings. The Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) wrote…

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