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Biotech / Medical : Ligand (LGND) Breakout! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: Henry Niman who wrote (21564)5/29/1998 12:27:00 PM
From: bob zagorin  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 32384
 
LGND gets a little press this a.m. in S&P Personal Wealth.

Featured Articles from S&P Personal Wealth

NEW YORK, May 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Read the following articles exclusively at S&P Personal Wealth ( personalwealth.com ). Standard & Poor's is a division of the McGraw-Hill Companies:

"FDA Advisory Panel Recommends Centocor's Avakine for Approval"

personalwealth.com

After the close of trading on May 28, an FDA advisory panel recommended

for approval Centocor Inc.'s (Nasdaq: CNTO) Avakine drug for treatment of

Crohn's disease. Trading in shares of Centocor, a developer of

monoclonal antibodies and DNA-based products, was halted all day Thursday

pending the panel's decision. Other stocks featured in this morning's

MarketMovers include SIBIA Neurosciences (Nasdaq: SIBI), Ligand

Pharmaceuticals (Nasdaq: LGND), ICOS Corp. (Nasdaq: ICOS), Ortel Corp.

(Nasdaq: ORTL), and American Eagle Outfitters (Nasdaq: AEOS)



To: Henry Niman who wrote (21564)5/29/1998 12:50:00 PM
From: Flagrante Delictu  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 32384
 
Henry, Thanks for the update. Since LGND268 has such a significantly positive effect on triglycerides in the tests mentioned in the Nature article, one would hope that LGND could come up with some compound that might reduce, or modify the hyperlipidemia that is associated with retinoids.