10 Best Managed Healthcare Stocks To Own Right Now

10 Best Managed Healthcare Stocks To Own Right Now: Cardiome Pharma Corporation(CRME)

Cardiome Pharma Corp., a life sciences company, engages in developing proprietary drugs to treat or prevent cardiovascular and other diseases. The company offers BRINAVESS, a product approved for marketing in the European Union, Iceland, and Norway for the conversion of recent onset atrial fibrillation to sinus rhythm in adults. It also has clinical programs, which focuses on the treatment of atrial fibrillation, an arrhythmia (or abnormal rhythm) of the upper chambers of the heart. The company has a phase 1 program for GED-aPC, an engineered analog of recombinant human activated Protein C that completed phase I clinical trials for the treatment of infectious disease. In addition, Cardiome Pharma Corp. has pre-clinical projects that focus on cardiac diseases, ion channel conditions, and other indications. It also has a collaboration and license agreement with Merck & Co., Inc. (Merck), for the development and commercialization of vernakalant; and Astellas Pharma US, Inc. t o develop, make, and sell intravenous or injectable formulations of vernakalant in North America. The company was formerly known as Nortran Pharmaceuticals Inc. and changed its name to Cardiome Pharma Corp. in June 2001. Cardiome Pharma Corp. was founded in 1986 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By John Udovich]

  The biotech sector along with small cap biotech stocks Cardiome Pharma Corp (NASDAQ: CRME), Oncolytics Biotech, Inc (NASDAQ: ONCY), Vital Therapies Inc (NASDAQ: VTL) and TNI BioTech (OTCMKTS: TNIB) have all been producing their share of news this week for investors and traders alike to trade on. Moreover and while some 42 life sciences companies have gone public raising about $3 billion from investors so far this year, there are a growing number of biotechs pulling the plug on upcoming IPOs who are citing market conditions. With that in mind, here is a look at impor! tant news from the biotech sector and small cap biotech stocks this week:

• [By Bryan Murphy]

  Back on March 13th I penned some less-than-well-received thoughts on Cardiome Pharma Corp. (NASDAQ:CRME). Basically, I was warning that CRME was just one stumble away from a fairly significant selloff. Given that so many traders were a fan of the biotech stock at the time, merely posing the possibility of a dip was something of a threat to my life and limb.

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