Similar Articles

Browse Main Topics:

Business
Computers & Electronics
Education & Reference
Entertainment & Leisure
Family & Home
Finance & Investment
Health
Internet
Pets & Animals
Science & Technology
Society, Politics & Culture
Sports & Recreation

Similar Articles

The Motley Fool December 29, 2009 Brian Orelli	Some Brand-Name Patents: Going, Going, Gone in 2010 Generic drug competition is coming for Lipitor, Plavix, and others.
The Motley Fool May 21, 2010 Brian Orelli	And You Thought Biotech Was High-Risk, High-Reward Large clinical trials make cardiovascular drugs risky, but the rewards are there, too.
The Motley Fool September 24, 2010 Brian Orelli	Prepare for This $12 Billion Whoosh Pfizer's Lipitor is the top-selling cholesterol drug -- in fact, it's the top selling drug period -- but it'll start to see generic competition in a little over a year.
The Motley Fool April 21, 2004 Ben McClure	Discount Pharmacy With prices beaten down across the pharmaceuticals industry and the quarterly reporting season here, do any investment opportunities pop up?
The Motley Fool December 4, 2006 Michael P. Cecil	Pfizer's Cholesterol-Drug Hopes Crumble In surprising and disappointing news, the pharma's promising new drug fails clinical trials. With Pfizer shares declining because of the bad news, is now a good time to buy?
The Motley Fool February 22, 2005 Charly Travers	Is Big Pharma a Bargain? While much of the drug sector is looking pretty tasty, Pfizer, with its attractive relative valuation, dominant marketing presence, and willingness to buy up blockbuster drugs, heads the list.
The Motley Fool November 15, 2011 Brian Orelli	Good Data, Big Drug Market, but Still Risky Eli Lilly's evacetrapib is behind Roche and Merck.
The Motley Fool March 4, 2011 Brian Orelli	Pfizer's Biggest Shot at Lipitor 2.0 It might need a little help from competitors.
BusinessWeek May 27, 2010 Michelle Cortez	Karo Bio's Prescription: Cheaper Drug Approval A Swedish company seeks a lower-cost review for its cholesterol drug.
The Motley Fool March 9, 2009 Brian Orelli	Merck-Schering Trumps Pfizer-Wyeth The new Merck deal looks a lot better than a combined Pfizer plus Wyeth.
The Motley Fool September 30, 2010 Brian Orelli	Avoid This Multibillion-Dollar Market It's just too crowded, but there's no doubt that psychiatric drugs are big business for some drugmakers.
The Motley Fool December 1, 2009 Robert Steyer	Merck Makes a Mark on Good Cholesterol Can't profit from fighting bad lipoproteins? Start boosting the good ones.
The Motley Fool August 2, 2004 Brian Gorman	Will Lipitor's Certification Boost Pfizer? The FDA's ruling may help the company ward off a new threat.
The Motley Fool February 22, 2007 Brian Lawler	Dueling Fools: Pfizer Bear It's been a blue chip for years, but that doesn't mean it will stay that way forever. It's inconceivable for Pfizer's market capitalization to be valued at $188 billion four years from now, when its revenues could be 40% lower than they are today.
The Motley Fool January 29, 2010 Brian Orelli	How to Make Billions of Dollars Without Really Trying Lackluster Alzheimer's drugs have been doing it for years.
The Motley Fool December 30, 2003 Arash Mostaghimi	Turning Cholesterol Into Cash With 62 million Americans suffering from heart disease, it's a huge target for major drug makers.
The Motley Fool April 21, 2011 Brian Orelli	Who's Next? 5 Potential Biotech Takeover Targets Exelixis has reportedly hired Goldman Sachs to shop the development-stage drugmaker around to the highest bidder. With an asset like XL184, there should be someone interested.
The Motley Fool June 8, 2011 Brian Orelli	Blockbuster Drug-Like Profits, No FDA Required Pfizer keeps the cuts coming.
The Motley Fool December 4, 2006 Michael Leibert	Whither Pfizer? Bad news follows the upbeat message delivered at Pfizer's R&D briefing. But with strong cash flows, a healthy dividend yield, unparalleled scale, and a discounted share price, Pfizer's risk/reward profile might look attractive to investors.
BusinessWeek November 24, 2010 Tom Randall	Merck May Have a Cholesterol Winner Merck told doctors at the American Heart Assn. annual meeting that new data showed its drug anacetrapib had reduced bad cholesterol by 40 percent while raising good cholesterol by an unprecedented 138 percent.
The Motley Fool February 16, 2010 Brian Orelli	For Blockbuster Cancer Drugs, Approvals Are the Easy Part Don't get too excited. As an investor, you can lower your risk by investing in cancer drug companies after a clinical trial success but before an FDA approval, but you'll also reduce your reward.
The Motley Fool February 4, 2009 Brian Orelli	The Tale of 2 Drugmakers Merck and Schering-Plough typically release earnings on the same day because they share sales of cholesterol drugs Vytorin and Zetia, but the drugmakers are far from the same.
The Motley Fool December 1, 2011 John Grgurich	Pfizer Losing Lipitor Patent: What Investors Need to Know The patent ends today.
The Motley Fool April 29, 2008 Brian Orelli	Merck's Recovery Flushed Down Merck's best hope at recovery fails approval by the FDA.
The Motley Fool February 26, 2010 Brian Orelli	Drug Company Cost Cuts: Careful What You Wish For Research and development is the lifeblood of future revenue.
Chemistry World April 6, 2011 Andrew Turley	Pfizer sells capsule business for $2.4bn Investment firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts has agreed to pay $2.4 billion in cash for the business, which it says has 'an excellent portfolio'.
The Motley Fool August 12, 2010 Brian Orelli	Pfizer: Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats Knowing them all makes it easier to judge an investment.
The Motley Fool November 30, 2011 Brian Orelli	3 Things More Important to Pfizer Than Losing Lipitor It's not like we didn't see it coming.
The Motley Fool May 18, 2009 Brian Orelli	Free Drugs! Pfizer's giving over 70 drugs away -- to people who have lost their jobs and health insurance recently and can show financial hardship.
The Motley Fool August 24, 2011 Brian Orelli	Can Roche and Merck Succeed Where Pfizer Failed? CETP inhibitors are lucrative but risky.
BusinessWeek November 29, 2004 Catherine Arnst	Big Pharma's Blinders Hugely profitable thanks to a few blockbusters, Big Pharma is far too focused on looking for the next best-seller, causing companies to pass up opportunities to deliver important breakthroughs.
The Motley Fool May 5, 2010 Brian Orelli	Doubled Revenue, but Not High Growth An acquisition and some rearrangements make Merck's revenue line sound better than it is.
The Motley Fool January 5, 2010 Brian Orelli	Lilly's Effient: Cheap Enough, for Now In order to justify the use of Effient, Eli Lilly is touting a study published in today's Circulation demonstrating the cost effectiveness of Effient over Plavix.
The Motley Fool April 26, 2011 Brian Orelli	We Hate Your Drug. And That's a Good Thing. This one's a pain for the clinical trial participants.
The Motley Fool January 30, 2007 Brian Lawler	Pfizer Fights a Generic Threat Pfizer attempts to fend off a generic threat in Canada for its top drug. It's a trial worth paying attention to for its shareholders, as Canada does represent one of the larger pharmaceutical markets in the world.
The Motley Fool March 22, 2010 Brian Orelli	Health-Care Reform Passes! Here's Where to Invest Now Some healthy suggestions for your portfolio.
The Motley Fool August 30, 2010 Brian Orelli	Pipeline Checkup: Merck Has Potential The Schering-Plough acquisition has seemed to help.
The Motley Fool September 15, 2010 Brian Orelli	Drug Approved. Now Let's Sell This Baby! With ink still wet on its FDA approval, Savient continues its plan to find a buyer.
Registered Rep. March 1, 2005 David A. Twibell	What Ails You? Investors who are wary of big pharma investments have good reasons to be. But this does not mean that the sector is to be avoided at all costs. Indeed, for savvy, well-informed investors, now might be a good time to jump in.
The Motley Fool November 2, 2011 Brian Orelli	Lipitor Loss Looming, Pfizer Shines Good thing it's already priced in.
BusinessWeek March 11, 2010 Ellen Gibson	The Quest to Boost Good Cholesterol Cleveland Clinic's Steven Nissen is again pursuing a drug that will attack plaque by raising HDL.
The Motley Fool March 3, 2011 Brian Orelli	3 Cheers for an FDA Rejection German drugmaker Merck said that the Food and Drug Administration had turned down its multiple sclerosis drug cladribine. The pill would have competed with Novartis' Gilenya, which gained FDA approval last year.
The Motley Fool December 4, 2008 Brian Orelli	Pfizer Blows Statin Smoke Pfizer presents some mildly persuasive numbers to try to win back customers for Lipitor.
The Motley Fool July 30, 2010 Brian Orelli	A Faster Pathway to Drug Approvals A thinktank called the Pacific Research Institute has proposed letting drugs approved by the European Medicines Authority onto the market in the U.S. before the Food and Drug Administration has approved the drugs.
The Motley Fool September 3, 2010 Brian Orelli	Why You Just Got Hammered Celldex's decline is due to potential reasons Pfizer would send back a drug it's been working on with Celldex for over two years
The Motley Fool September 5, 2007 Billy Fisher	Lilly's Pipeline Continues to Produce Another schizophrenia drug from the company shows promise in a clinical trial, prompting the company to plan additional trials. This is the latest good news in what has been a good year for Lilly.
The Motley Fool November 8, 2010 Brian Orelli	No Sticking Point Here: Pfizer's Potential Blockbuster Works Translating successful phase 2 results into a positive phase 3 trial can require a bit of luck, especially for a disease such as rheumatoid arthritis where the outcomes are somewhat subjective.
The Motley Fool January 28, 2010 Brian Orelli	Only the Strong Survive at Pfizer The culling of the pipeline isn't as bad as it sounds.
The Motley Fool September 20, 2010 Brian Orelli	Potential Blockbuster, No Me-Too About It A diabetes-fighting duo do it right this time.
The Motley Fool December 18, 2008 Brian Orelli	Best Stock for 2009: Pfizer Pfizer's languishing stock price has made the company so much more attractive; it could see a breakout in 2009.