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- From: watanabe@cs.uiuc.edu (Larry Watanabe)
- Subject: Re: Tokos Medical (TKOS)
- Message-ID: <By1upL.EAG@cs.uiuc.edu>
- Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
- References: <1992Nov17.191446.10684@asl.dl.nec.com> <1992Nov21.013055.10889@island.COM>
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- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 04:48:56 GMT
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- guido@island.COM (Guido Marx) writes:
-
- >In article <1992Nov17.191446.10684@asl.dl.nec.com> alie@csl.dl.nec.com (Andrew Lie) writes:
- >>Tokos Medical, one of Barron's Fund favorites, takes a dive today
- >>(down 8 3/8). Does anyone have any news to share? Thank you.
-
- >Our local business columnist (Herb Greenberg - Buisness Insider S.F. Chronicle)
- >wrote a couple of articles about this company. It seems that the FDA has
- >been investigating whether or not Tokos has been promoting some of its
- >medical monitoring devices for uses for which they have not been approved
- >by the FDA. Obviously, if the FDA decides that they have, it will be bad
- >for the company.
-
- In the Wall Street Journal (Friday, Nov 20/92)
- it says it is because of the
- negative results of a Canadian study of one of
- their drugs (retudrine?). Apparently Tokos had played down
- the negative implications of the study, but the implicatios
- are more serious than realized (according to WSJ).
-
- >Guido
-