Investors Alert – Gilead Sciences (NASDAQ:GILD) , Galena Biopharma (NASDAQ:GALE) , RPI , UnitedHealth (NYSE:UNH) , China Automotive (NASDAQ:CAAS)

Gilead Sciences’ controversial $1,000-a-day Sovaldi pill is priced in line with previous treatments for Hepatitis C, but the nation’s health-care system likely won’t be able to handle that kind of sticker shock, and competition probably will bring down that price tag in coming months and years. Gilead Sciences, Inc. (NASDAQ:GILD) stock performance was 4.84% in last session and finished the day at $89.19. Traded volume … Continue reading Investors Alert – Gilead Sciences (NASDAQ:GILD) , Galena Biopharma (NASDAQ:GALE) , RPI , UnitedHealth (NYSE:UNH) , China Automotive (NASDAQ:CAAS)

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 hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection. Gilead Sciences, Inc. (NASDAQ:GILD) stock … Continue reading Healthcare New Highs: Gilead Sciences (NASDAQ:GILD), Baxter International (NYSE:BAX), WellPoint (NYSE:WLP), The Cooper Companies, Inc. (NYSE:COO), iKang Healthcare (NASDAQ:KANG)

Arena Pharmaceuticals, Inc.’s (NASDAQ:ARNA ) shares dropped 9.4% following news that its CEO Jack Lief, has sold around 40% of his stake in the company. Arena Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ:ARNA) stock performance was -5.29% in last session and finished the day at $5.01. Traded volume was 7.44million shares in the last session and the average volume of the stock remained 4.98million shares. The beta of the … Continue reading Healthcare Active Stocks: Arena Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:ARNA), Bristol-Myers Squibb (NYSE:BMY), Gilead Sciences (NASDAQ:GILD), TherapeuticsMD (NYSEMKT:TXMD), Boston Scientific (NYSE:BSX)

CliniWorks today announced a strategic alliance between and Pfizer Inc. (NYSE:PFE) to jointly advance the parties’ respective capabilities in working with healthcare provider organizations to identify and close clinical or quality gaps to improve population health. The two companies are partnering to develop a population health management platform solution that leverages CliniWorks’ technologies in disparate data aggregation and Natural Language Processing (which interprets free text … Continue reading Healthcare Active Movers: Pfizer Inc. (NYSE:PFE), Arena Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:ARNA), Gilead Sciences (NASDAQ:GILD), MannKind Corporation (NASDAQ:MNKD)

Spirits maker Diageo North America and pharmaceutical giant Pfizer Inc. (NYSE:PFE) have each agreed to pay a $5,000 fine because their lobbyists failed to disclose expenditures for receptions at the 2012 Democratic National Convention, the Office of State Ethics announced. Pfizer Inc. (NYSE:PFE) stock performance was 1.35% in last session and finished the day at $30.08. Traded volume was 25.60million shares in the last session … Continue reading Healthcare Active Movers: Pfizer Inc. (NYSE:PFE), MannKind Corporation (NASDAQ:MNKD), Gilead Sciences (NASDAQ:GILD), Agenus (NASDAQ:AGEN), Merck & Co (NYSE:MRK)

MannKind Corporation (NASDAQ:MNKD) VP David Thomson sold 30,000 shares of the stock on the open market in a transaction that occurred on Thursday, June 26th. The shares were sold at an average price of $10.51, for a total transaction of $315,300.00. Following the transaction, the vice president now directly owns 102,286 shares in the company, valued at approximately $1,075,026. MannKind Corporation (NASDAQ:MNKD) stock performance was … Continue reading Healthcare Most Active Stocks: MannKind Corporation (NASDAQ:MNKD), Pfizer Inc. (NYSE:PFE), Amicus Therapeutics (NASDAQ:FOLD), Geron Corporation (NASDAQ:GERN), Gilead Sciences (NASDAQ:GILD)