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Biotech / Medical : XOMA. Bull or Bear? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Arthur Radley who wrote (11383)	8/18/1999 6:15:00 PM
From: Bluegreen	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 17367

Giving tight lipped interviews is not demanding retractions and filing suit which HAS to involve the FDA process during discovery. If you disagree with that, fine. Now I suppose you think that requiring a mortality requirement on kids is NOT callous? Maybe you think it is not callous because it is not your kid lying there dying when a safe drug might help. Just SOME people? Go anywhere and ask anyone who knows anything about the drug approval process. How in the world do you think SOME PEOPLE got FDA reforms like fast track? BY DRAGGING THE FDA KICKING AND SCREAMING TO TASK. Yes Tex, the same callous FDA which required the mortality requirement of the little ones. Pure and simple.

To: Arthur Radley who wrote (11383)	8/18/1999 6:31:00 PM
From: opalapril	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17367

Tex, on the soon-to-be-off-topic matter of Ellen's interview, I have to disagree that it is a simple or obvious matter to demand a retraction or threaten suit. Frankly, Xoma did pretty well getting the offending item removed from the web and a slightly sanitized version substituted. I, too, have a fair amount of experience dealing with our friends in the Fourth Estate. If there is one thing they are very good at it is polishing their own image. Know any industry that spends so much ink reporting the obscure awards they like to give themselves? If they resent anything deeply, it is the implication they are biased, stupid, or inept writers; the more biased, stupid, and inept they are, the more they resent it. Just about the worst thing Xoma could have done for its future relations with the press was to threaten Bloomberg.