Gsk Share Discussion Threads

[philanderer] 31/1/2018 23:22

Market report: Pharma stocks slide as Donald Trump vows to tackle high drug prices

[ygor705] 31/1/2018 17:31

Huge 4.4m share buy late in the day. Somebody still likes them.

[juju44] 31/1/2018 17:12

I sold at 1330

[woodhawk] 31/1/2018 17:05

Pity you two didn't think about selling it higher up. Better luck next time. Lost the big divi too unless you're back in the next 3 weeks.

[juju44] 31/1/2018 16:29

Jumped ship too . No recovery in sight

[hosede] 31/1/2018 16:27

Sold out at 1318. May be OK long term, but it's going to go lower short term, I think

[abdullla] 31/1/2018 14:39

More damage now that the Dow is up,LSE is indeed a shift market!

[ttg100] 31/1/2018 09:04

with thanks to henryatkin on SHA bb



food for thought

[romeike] 30/1/2018 14:18

Of course it's typical that despite some of the FTSE doing well, the whole FTSE will feel pain when the DJ does eventually correct.

[romeike] 30/1/2018 14:18

News expected this week from Pfizer re: received bids on its consumer unit. Willing to guess EW has put in a low ball bid. Not sure about the RB interest, maybe a bid from Nestle or similar will surprise.

[abdullla] 30/1/2018 14:03

Dow up 5000 over last few months but hardly any improvement in ftse,now Dow down slightly and ftse going to kill itself !

[romeike] 30/1/2018 11:11

The hike in VIX index, if sustained, may suggest a rotation is on the cards.

[montyhedge] 30/1/2018 08:12

Rotation back into big pharma, perhaps.

[romeike] 29/1/2018 12:42

Hike in Pfizer could suggest interest in big pharma is returning, we will have to see if the trend reverses for the benefit of holders here. A recent uptick in M&A can only be helpful in luring more funds back into the sector and away from Finance and Tech where valuations are currently stratospheric - yes, I am looking at you Netflix.

[buywell3] 27/1/2018 18:23

Prion disease = Alzheimers, motor neuron , parkinson's and more Dementia = human shakes disease
The next BIG thing to come from the USA will be that CWD from deer has infected humans with a CJD type disease

CWD and Prion disease are terminal = no cure





Alzheimer's disease & dementia January 9, 2018

An international team of researchers has found different disease type associations with distinct amyloid-beta prion strains in the brains of dead Alzheimer's patients. In their paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the group describes their study of sliced brain fragments and what they learned about the nature of amyloid-beta prions.


Prior research has found a connection between protein clumps in the brain and Alzheimer's disease. Prior research has also shown that the protein clumps are a mutant type of amyloid beta, which results in the growth of plaques in the brain. In this new effort, the researchers have found evidence indicating that there are distinct types of amyloid-beta prion strains which can be associated with different types of brain diseases.

The study consisted of dissecting and studying the brains of 41 patients who had died of Alzheimer's disease. Slices of brain tissue were doused with a fluorescent dye known to bind to amyloid bindings. The researchers studied the samples with confocal spectral imaging. Doing so, the group reports, revealed different types of disease associations between unique amyloid-beta prion strains. The researchers also found evidence that suggested mutant amyloid-beta can take on the self-propagating structure of prions, in which they form more self-replicating prions.

One of the goals of research surrounding Alzheimer's disease and other dementia ailments is to find a way to diagnose the particular ailment so that it can be treated with drugs or other therapies specifically designed for it. Currently, the only way to accurately diagnose Alzheimer's disease is to study the brain after a patient has died. The researchers with this new effort suggest their findings are a step toward this goal. They further suggest that probes of the future might be sensitive enough to distinguish the different strains they have seen in their work, which would allow doctors to design treatments specifically suited to individual patients. There is no cure for Alzheimer's disease, but there are drugs that can slow its progression—thus, if the disease could be diagnosed earlier, before obvious mental impairments present, treatment could begin earlier, giving patients more productive years.

[montyhedge] 27/1/2018 14:55

Dow flying Friday night, I think we may test 1400p next week,

[philanderer] 27/1/2018 00:25

More or less friday's Alphaville info...


"Dividend hopes help lift GlaxoSmithKline"

FT market report:

[red army] 26/1/2018 20:34

I can sympathise as I had it three years ago on my face and they told me my eye sight was at risk. Extremely painful.

[jrphoenixw2] 26/1/2018 19:23

Just in case it wasn't here but elsewhere I recounted my direct experience :)
I've had shingles. Got it aged 18 right after overlanding around India back in the 80s and coming home ravaged with amoebic dysentery [E. histolytica]. The shingles got me that young primarily because my immune system was so depleted it left me vulnerable.
The dysentery was dreadful, and recurred for months, cramps like you're having your guts ripped out. The shingles I had on my chest, and it came in waves too, and was like having my chest in a vice when it hit; genuinely agonising. On getting home from India I went straight to uni [reading parasitology /ironic] and there were several occasions I'd be in lectures and get a shingles hit, and just have tears of pain streaming down my face.
It is a dreadful thing, and thrives on the vulnerable. Perhaps I was lucky to get it young and not suffer any 2ndary neurological damage.
I'd recommend anyone eligible for a free vaccination to get it. Anyone younger who can afford it might consider it too. It's more widespread than is widely known, it's still quite a taboo thing to discuss having or having had.

[buywell3] 26/1/2018 17:34

Anyone like venison sausages ?

[montyhedge] 26/1/2018 14:20

ygor705
Any age can get it. GSK is the best vac, the other one is a live vac, GSK is not.

[montyhedge] 26/1/2018 14:13

Relative had Shingles lasted 8 weeks not nice, everyone should have a jab, just like a flu jab. Best £160 I spent.

[gbh2] 26/1/2018 13:56

Most certainly qualify age wise at 70, I suspect you'd need to be on some other "needs" list to qualify before.

[ygor705] 26/1/2018 13:47

Monty........you're obviously a young Turk, what the hell are you doing messing around with Shingles jabs? For the record, people in the UK in their late 60s, 70s and 80s qualify for free Shingles jabs at specific ages. Must be steady business for the NHS supplier with the number of people in these age brackets steadily increasing.

[montyhedge] 26/1/2018 13:13

That Shingles vac is a blockbuster, I paid £160 for a shingles vaccination, that was from a rival, before the GSK Vac appeared, GSK vac is suppose to be better.
Everyone over 50 should get vac, 1 in 3 will get Shingles sometime in their lives.

Yes 1 in 3