Sunday, February 12, 2017

This is your Pilot

New York Post: Crazed pilot rants about politics and divorce over ... qwiket.com/.../crazed-pilot-rants-about-politics-and-divorce-over-plane-int... 4 hours ago - Topic from New York Post: A hysterical pilot dressed in civilian clothing ... starting ranting about politics and her divorce, according to a report. https://youtu.be/mnu6QSEt-m4 Pilot removed from flight after Donald Trump rant over intercom before take off youtu.be A pilot had to be removed from her flight after ranting about her divorce and Donald Trump over the plane's intercom. The United Airlines pilot left some pas... This is your Pilot "Attention All Women and Men: This is your Pilot, and not CNN" Thus, with tears and talk began a scary rant-- making passengers want to walk but then finding that they can't they let her rave on to find some surcease hoping she'd go leaving them still in one piece which happened and so they avoided anything gory. And that's more or less the end of this story, except it seems that turbulence reports this year may not merely be confined to the atmosphere. HzL 2/12/17

Thursday, February 9, 2017

Good MEDICINE may be bad ECONOMICS

Good MEDICINE may be bad ECONOMICS (From today's Wall Street Journal and MARKETWATCH in the articles cited below) "Hepatitis C drugs usually cure patients in a single course of treatment. That is great news for the patients; but is a different business proposition than for drugs for chronic diseases." Gilead has accumulated more than $45 billion in cumulative revenue since 2013 but patients are becoming fewer. ADVICE TO DOCTORS AND DRUG COMPANIES When you have expenses, I say discreetly, as well as too many bills to pay beware of curing your patients completely-- it's better if they'll return another day. So give lots of encouraging advice as well as comfy messages and perks but you'd better think at least twice before doing something that REALLY works. Of course, psychiatrists have known this for years, so they'll alleviate --but rarely dispel -- fears. However, if you can't avoid using a "breakthrough" drug that works too well, you should at least be quite sure to make it expensive as Hell. HzL 2/9/17 Gilead's Boom Fades and Bust Will Linger - WSJ https://www.wsj.com/.../gileads-boom-fades-and-bust-will-linger-14865712... 1 day ago - Gilead Sciences' great success with hepatitis drug says a lot about drug pricing and risk for the future. [$$] Gilead's Boom Fades and Bust Will Linger - Yahoo Finance https://finance.yahoo.com/.../ss_%5B$$%5D-gilead%26%2339%3Bs-bo... 1 day ago - Gilead's Boom Fades and Bust Will Linger. The Wall Street ... Gilead Sciences just kitchen-sinked 2017 guidance, worse than anyone expected. 14 BULLETIN Nvidia shares fall after hours despite record holiday quarterClose Bulletin Share on TwitterShare on Facebook NEW YORK MARKETS AFTER HOURS Market Snapshot Winners and Losers Home Industries Pharmaceuticals The Ratings GameGET EMAIL ALERTS Gilead cured hepatitis C. That’s become its biggest problem By Emma Court Published: Feb 8, 2017 11:33 a.m. ET 14 Gilead’s hepatitis C cure was a breakthrough. But it’s also the source of the company’s troubleshttp://ei.marketwatch.com//Multimedia/2016/06/07/Photos/ZH/MW-EO808_gilead_20160607163917_ZH.jpg?uuid=e78b077c-2cef-11e6-9a50-0015c588dfa6 Bloomberg News/Landov Gilead’s 2017 sales guidance was far below even reduced Wall Street expectations. Gilead Sciences Inc. achieved a scientific breakthrough when it developed a cure for hepatitis C, the viral infection that can have severe and deadly complications. The company’s biggest problem these days appears to be that it works. Gilead GILD, -1.86% shares sunk 9.7% in heavy volume Wednesday morning after the company issued 2017 sales guidance far below even reduced Wall Street expectations. –– ADVERTISEMENT –– “We believe investors expected guidance to be light... just not necessarily this light,” said J.P. Morgan analyst Cory Kasimov

Wednesday, February 1, 2017

23 and Thee

http://static1.businessinsider.com/image/5834cf91ba6eb61b008b5e35-480/spit-23andme-test.jpg 23 and Thee Expectorate, expectorate and then perhaps you'll find a mate or far more likely, ancestral genes from long past scenes when people cohabitated more or less as rabbits did-- whether with friend or foe-- leaving behind a faulty esophagus or Morton's toe, as well as many other defects that may be there-- Including whether or not you'll keep your hair? But though Science has learned much about DNA all of that is what happened yesterday and since then the world has changed, becoming so much more deranged. Who 's now to say what and who's genes will last after a future deadly radioactive blast? HzL 2/1/17 AncestryDNA vs. 23andMe best DNA test - Business Insider www.businessinsider.com/best-dna-test-23andme-vs-ancestry-2016-11 Nov 23, 2016 - I've taken AncestryDNA and 23andMe genetics tests — here's what I tell people when they ask me which one is best. Lydia Ramsey. Nov. 23 ... Left-Handedness, Baldness, Morton's Toe, Neanderthal DNA, and ... autismandhumanatavism.tumblr.com/.../left-handedness-baldness-morton... Left-Handedness, Baldness, Morton's Toe, Neanderthal DNA, and Human ... receptor gene that causes male pattern baldness comes from Neanderthals. It looks ... Researchers identify four genetic variants that are linked to ... https://www.fredhutch.org/.../researchers-identify-four-genetic-variants-li... Oct 13, 2013 - SEATTLE – Oct. 13, 2013 – An international consortium co-led by researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and the QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute in Australia has identified four genetic variants associated with an increased risk of esophageal cancer and its precursor, a condition called Barrett's ... Left-Handedness, Baldness, Morton's Toe, Neanderthal DNA, and ... autismandhumanatavism.tumblr.com/.../left-handedness-baldness-morton... Left-Handedness, Baldness, Morton's Toe, Neanderthal DNA, and Human ... receptor gene that causes male pattern baldness comes from Neanderthals. It looks ...