Astrazeneca Share Discussion Threads

[arja] 09/9/2019 10:51

wow , hit today on pound strength and presumably the news announcement not well received . Might be oversold in day and a day trade is tempting

[smcni1968] 05/9/2019 21:58

Glaxo down a similar percentage. It's all a bit silly.

[arja] 05/9/2019 13:28

well, it has moved up a cent and a bit but surely that does not account for the sharp fall today . However , chart still shows a lovely short term and longer term uptrend .

[smcni1968] 05/9/2019 12:39

Move up in the pound I think

[arja] 05/9/2019 10:40

I did not notice any bad news coming out on this company but something has triggered the selloff . Not ex div today is it ?

[smcni1968] 04/9/2019 19:03

Société Generale target price £105

[chc15] 02/9/2019 11:53

Back from hols, this is still going up, glad I held!

[bluemango] 02/9/2019 09:40

Another all-time high.

Which is nice, but I hold this for income. Looking forward to these positive drug trial news releases working their way through to higher dividends, as must surely follow.

[cheshire pete] 01/9/2019 17:33

Brilinta reduced the risk of cardiovascular events in patients with coronary artery disease and type-2 diabetes in Phase III THEMIS trial.

Saw a snippet in the MoS about this: Press conference tonight reportedly. Could be good for tomorrow, fingers crossed.

[buywell3] 26/8/2019 10:24

A new CJD variant




buywell believes many CJD cases are being wrongly diagnosed as dementia and other diseases

[jackdaw4243] 22/8/2019 13:59

Well I got that "buy back in" completley wrong by two hours. Weak pound makes this a target IMHO.

[chc15] 22/8/2019 09:05

Yet more news today, glad I've held on, seriously how how can this go now...

[arja] 20/8/2019 19:51

thanks white house . yes , this algorythmic trading is a real pain in the
proverbial and makes it harder to trade a stock even following the intra day chart .
I thought it might be linked to bad news on brexit and shortage of medicines if a no deal brexit

[the white house] 20/8/2019 16:28

Programmed selling when it gets to 20 quid above its 52 week low. Undeserved given newsflow but must be the only share in UK this far ahead in that time period and some want out and need to be swallowed up before moving on

[arja] 20/8/2019 15:57

why the big drop from earlier level ? But chart still looks very good and likely to
be in NOR territiry again quite soon . Not sure how much it will be affected by brexit
if it happens !

[the white house] 20/8/2019 09:41

Another week, another superb update, the pipeline is frighteningUp to 4th in the Footsie....& counting

[the white house] 14/8/2019 08:03

Relentless

[ayl30] 14/8/2019 07:16

RNS today looks positive. Should help share price trend continue

[1hopefultrader] 13/8/2019 14:38

Dividend is 9/9

[buywell3] 11/8/2019 09:18

-------- Another new test for Alzheimer's using SKIN ---------

2nd-Aug-2019

Scientist receives major grant for diagnosis of Alzheimer's, Parkinson's via new skin test


This fits in with the title for my thread header , that one can catch Alzheimer's from another person because it is a prion disease

AND

Those same prions are present on the skin of a person suffering from Alzheimer's , most likely IMO in an advanced state.

[buywell3] 10/8/2019 11:01

----- Dementia became the BIGGEST KILLER IN THE UK in 2016 -----


And it has got worse and been the biggest killer ever since - buywell is NOT in the least bit surprised - here is why:


Dementia becomes Britain’s biggest killer - The Telegraph


Dementia and Alzheimer’s are now the biggest cause of death in England and Wales after jumping by a fifth in a single year, official figures show.




Alzheimer's is the most common form of Dementia ( which is NOT a disease in itself).


Dementia is the name for a GROUP OF DISEASES


"Alzheimer's disease is a type of dementia and, together with vascular dementia, makes up the vast majority of cases."





ONCE you can accept the fact that


''Alzheimer's is the most common type of dementia. ''





THEN you can focus on the fact that ALZHEIMER's is now the BIGGEST killer in the UK and has been for the last 3 years

AND it is getting worse


PLUS at present Health Services around the world do NOT have a piece of valid test equipment that they can use to test a live patient to see if they have Alzheimer's.


Sure PET brain scans are used in many cases BUT this equipment is very costly and in use for a variety of different diseases and ailments .

A DEDICATED SIMPLE easy and quick piece of test equipment to test for Alzheimer's does NOT YET EXIST.



The present Alzheimer's diagnosis is IMO therefore the most part purely subjective as many patients do NOT have a PET scan



Things are now happening and soon a test will be able to be performed





In other words IF there was a piece of 99% accurate test equipment for Alzheimer's then IMO numbers of Alzheimer's cases will ROCKET EVEN HIGHER


Currently there is test equipment that claims to be able to detect Alzheimer's with pretty impressive accuracy



You will notice the test looks at Amyloid Beta protein as in my header plus
'That analysis could then be combined with two other major Alzheimer’s risk factors – age and the presence of the genetic variant APOE4 – to accurately identify the relevant changes in the brain.'


buywell has also posted on APOE4



NOW COMES THE PROBLEM



IF Health Authorities go along with the presence of Amyloid Beta Protein , TAU protein and APOE4 being used as determinants of Alzheimer's --- Then it opens up a whole can of worms in the current arguments that these three protein determinants are in fact capable of becoming prion proteins when they get themselves misshapen .

Arguably from that point on:


Alzheimer's has to be classified as a prion disease

Which means it is transmissible , and always fatal with no cure.

Which is why no drug has ever been found to treat it despite around $ 100 Billions of monies being spent in the last 20 to 30 years by BIG PHARMA's trying to create one.


No cure exists for any forms of prion diseases --- animal or human.

[bountyhunter] 09/8/2019 13:58

Exactly, it's taken a while but very evident on the chart above.

[mac15] 09/8/2019 11:58

Serious re rating going on here as price starts to reflect the enhanced drug pipeline.
Think there is a lot more to go, so will hang on a while longer.