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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?
BusinessWeek July 26, 2004 Amy Barrett	Hooked On The Cash From Cholesterol Cholesterol-lowering drugs are massive moneyspinners. But can big pharmaceutical companies sidestep expiring patents?
The Motley Fool April 28, 2009 Brian Orelli	The Costs of Being Pfizer With Pfizer having announced its intention to buy Wyeth this quarter, investors may have worried that the negotiating and pre-acquisition planning caused management to be distracted, but that doesn't seem to be the case.
The Motley Fool December 1, 2011 John Grgurich	Pfizer Losing Lipitor Patent: What Investors Need to Know The patent ends today.
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 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.
The Motley Fool April 5, 2005 Stephen D. Simpson	Pfizer Pfaces Its Pfuture Analysts and investors seem happy with Pfizer's long-term strategy. Should they be?
The Motley Fool September 7, 2007 Brian Orelli	Fighting the Generics Next Door Pfizer tries to stop patients from switching from it's patented Lipitor to generic Zocor by doing an observational study of patients on both medications.
The Motley Fool April 30, 2008 Brian Lawler	Pfizer Protects Profitable Patent The courts uphold a key patent on Pfizer's top drug.
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 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 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 June 1, 2007 Brian Lawler	The Generic Cracks Open for Pfizer Pfizer loses a patent case over its top compound. The larger takeaway from the Lipitor legal saga is that investors always need to be aware of the strength of a drug company's patents throughout the world.
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 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 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 October 5, 2007 Brian Orelli	Merck's Next Blockbuster? Merck's cholesterol drug comes back from phase 2 testing with no side effects. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool June 19, 2008 Brian Lawler	Pfizer's Small Lipitor Win Pfizer and the most prolific challenger of its Lipitor patents, Indian generic-drug manufacturer Ranbaxy, settle the vast majority of their litigation.
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 21, 2004 Brian Gorman	Will Cholesterol Drug Pack a Punch? Merck's and Schering-Plough's new combination may receive a lukewarm welcome. In the near term, investors will probably cheer both companies, but in the long run, the companies will be better off it they can come up with something totally original.
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 August 25, 2008 Rich Duprey	Lipitor Marketing Raises Blood Pressure Pfizer continues affinity-group marketing of its best-selling cholesterol drug Lipitor.
Chemistry World January 2007 Derek Lowe	Opinion: In the Pipeline Here is a look at the recent failure of Pfizer's cholesterol drug, torcetrapib, and what it could mean for the future of pharmaceutical research.
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 September 11, 2007 Brian Lawler	Looking Forward at Pfizer With generic competition on the way for Pfizer's top drug, Lipitor, the company stepped up to the podium at the Bear Stearns Healthcare Conference this week to let investors know its plans.
The Motley Fool July 18, 2007 Ryan Fuhrmann	Pfizer Prepares for L-Day Will Pfizer be able to offset the looming loss of Lipitor? Investors, take note.
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 January 15, 2008 Brian Orelli	No Enhance-ment From Zetia Merck and Schering report bad news, but how much will it affect sales? Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool February 22, 2007 Brian Lawler	Dueling Fools: Pfizer Bear Rebuttal Generic competition for Lipitor is just the beginning. Faith is nice in terms of religion, but when it comes to investments, investors need to be able to make some reasonable assumptions about future growth plans.
The Motley Fool January 19, 2007 Ryan Fuhrmann	The Best Drug Stock for 2007: Pfizer Investors, this is a great company at a great price.
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 April 2, 2008 Michael P. Cecil	Irrational Exuberance for Vytorin and Zetia? Drugmakers Merck and Schering-Plough certainly hoped data from the Enhance study would enhance the value and status of their blockbuster cholesterol-fighting drugs Zetia and Vytorin -- but its results did quite the opposite.
The Motley Fool August 24, 2011 Brian Orelli	Can Roche and Merck Succeed Where Pfizer Failed? CETP inhibitors are lucrative but risky.
The Motley Fool April 21, 2008 Brian Lawler	Pfizer Is Still Floundering Generic competition keeps pounding away at its sales and profits.
The Motley Fool December 19, 2005 Stephen D. Simpson	Pfizer Wins, a Sector Rejoices The pharmaceutical dodges a bullet and investors find renewed enthusiasm for big-cap pharma.
The Motley Fool June 8, 2011 Brian Orelli	Blockbuster Drug-Like Profits, No FDA Required Pfizer keeps the cuts coming.
The Motley Fool April 20, 2007 Ryan Fuhrmann	Discerning Pfizer's Pfuture The company is undergoing a transformation, but that doesn't mean it isn't worth a look from investors.
The Motley Fool January 23, 2007 Ryan Fuhrmann	Pfizer Pfizzles Through 2006 The company is in a top-line pickle, but it expects things to get better. Current investors are now left standing until a rebound in growth, now targeted for 2009.
The Motley Fool August 16, 2011 Brian Orelli	Keeping Those Little Blue Pill Sales Up Pfizer wins a patent lawsuit for Viagra.
The Motley Fool July 20, 2006 Stephen D. Simpson	Pfizer's Big Plans Between the launch of inhaled insulin and spending $34 billion, Pfizer has a lot on its plate. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool August 23, 2004 Ben McClure	Rethinking Big Pharma Risk is knocking Big Pharma stocks down. They won't be getting up anytime soon. Competition, soaring R&D costs, shifting business models, and political meddling combine to make drug stocks a riskier place to invest.
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 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 October 19, 2009 Brian Orelli	Foolish Forecast: A Last Look at "Mini" Pfizer In advance of Pfizer's last earnings report before their acquisition of Wyeth, analysts expect a drop in sales and a bigger bottom line decrease.
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The Motley Fool February 22, 2007 Ryan Fuhrmann	Dueling Fools: Pfizer Bull The drug giant has ample firepower. The current company valuation largely ignores Pfizer's upside potential past 2008.
BusinessWeek August 14, 2006	Statins Could Cause Legal Headaches Pfizer insists that Lipitor's safety record "is very well established."
The Motley Fool March 14, 2006 Brian Gorman	AstraZeneca's Heartening News A new study shows cholesterol drug Crestor's further potential. Will it help sales?
BusinessWeek January 10, 2005 Amy Barrett	Pfizer Has Plenty Of Pain To Kill Many investors and analysts argue that while the drug company should continue to plow money into new-drug development, the company needs to aggressively reduce other costs and return greater amounts of cash to shareholders through a higher dividend.
The Motley Fool January 9, 2009 Brian Orelli	Thanks for Nothing, FDA The Food and Drug Administration says there's still enough evidence that Merck and Schering-Plough's Vytorin works to warrant keeping patients on the drug.