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

To: aknahow who wrote (5196)	12/29/1997 10:50:00 AM
From: William L. Molair II	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 17367

On vacation today and had the tv on CNBC. Walked through the den and saw a 10,000 block of XOMA go by on the ticker. About 30 minutes later, I walked through the den again and saw another 10,000 block of XOMA go by on the ticker. Both trades were at the same price (5) and were upticks 1/16. Looks to me like a mutual fund may be nibbling a little.

To: aknahow who wrote (5196)	12/29/1997 11:42:00 PM
From: nestegg	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 17367

The 'Glasgow scale Factor' sounds like an ancient technique applied to a non-related futuristic cure method.......as you explain it, To LATE! Let's hope someone involved with the latter, will take the subject and get it re-evaluated as to earlier timing or thrown out?! In the '60's, I worked as an Army corpman in contagion ward's where Meningitus was very observably evident on the skin and tested vitals of recruits infected. It seems to me, BPI & 'specific' antibiotic treatment should be started PROMPTLY upon 1st visual & biotests diagnosis. These guys were almost 'dead on arrival' at the base hospital, and not a second should be lost to 'hem & haw' diagnosis and dautle about rapid treatment. (p.s. I didn't like working in those ward rooms. I took a sulfa drug before my work shift and after the shift called 'gantrozin' (sorry, forgot the spelling) and was told be Doc that I would be 'safe' by putting a sulfur block on my spine w/the medicine. I think masking, changing full body gown between patients and washing w/antiobiotic soap probably better preventive than drug. Whew! ...I lived to tell about it?!)

To: aknahow who wrote (5196)	12/30/1997 10:44:00 AM
From: Edward Paule	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 17367

<<<P III also requires patients to be at 8 or higher on the scale for P III also. Must say I do not understand why the need to wait so long>>> George, The answer is simple. Kids must die in the placebo group for rBPI21 to show statistical significance. Unfortunate for them, but that's how the system works. If rBPI21 works at this level, as the open label study seems to show; and level 8 or higher maximizes the probability of death in the placebo group; and this happens often enough so that a trial doesn't last forever; then IMO it's a sound design for a phase III trial. - Ed.