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DewDiligence

01/06/10 7:40 PM

#88563 RE: flatlander_60048 #88551

The EMIS article you cited from Seeking Alpha is clueless. Not halting a trial after an interim look does not imply that “we are hitting our primary endpoints,” as the Seeking Alpha author asserts.

EMIS is one of those biotech companies that’s been a day late and a dollar short with respect to every clinical program it has conducted. There could be some upside for shareholders if oral calcitonin eventually pans out—provided that EMIS is still financially solvent when that happens. My advice, FWIW, is to pass.
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DewDiligence

07/23/10 9:18 AM

#99316 RE: flatlander_60048 #88551

EMIS/NVS’ oral calcitonin bombs in phase-3:

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Emisphere-Provides-an-Update-pz-3978785352.html?x=0&.v=1

From a financial standpoint, the oral-calcitonin program was* immaterial for NVS but highly consequential for EMIS, who is another biotech that can’t seem to do anything right.

*I’m using the past tense deliberately.