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The Motley Fool September 1, 2009 Brian Orelli	Merck to Bride: Leave the Jewelry at Home The new Merck will look a lot like the old Merck at the top, even though about 40% of Schering's senior leaders will be headed to the new company.
The Motley Fool July 21, 2009 Brian Orelli	Merck and Schering: A Less Ugly Bride and Groom Merck and Schering-Plough are up today on "better than expected" earnings, but the bride and groom don't look all that great heading into the wedding.
The Motley Fool April 4, 2008 Brian Orelli	Why Is Schering Cutting Now? The latest pharmaceutical company to jump on the cost-cutting bandwagon is Schering-Plough.
The Motley Fool November 4, 2009 Brian Orelli	An Ode to Schering-Plough Mergers and acquisitions in the pharmaceutical industry are cataloged in a poem.
The Motley Fool December 26, 2007 Brian Orelli	Inflamed Anti-Inflammatory Contract Revised J&J and Schering revise their agreement over anti-TNF compounds.
The Motley Fool July 24, 2007 Brian Orelli	No Pharma Love for Schering A doubling of earnings, but no jump in stock price? Schering investors, take note.
The Motley Fool June 30, 2008 Brian Orelli	Merck and Schering Get Half a Divorce The lovey-dovey duo ends their respiratory partnership.
The Motley Fool May 21, 2009 Brian Orelli	Not So Fast, Schering ... er, Merck ... er, Whoever You Are Merck got cute with its acquisition of Schering-Plough by setting up the merger so that Schering is technically merging with Merck and then changing its name to Merck. That seemingly schizophrenic move had a purpose.
The Motley Fool October 23, 2009 Brian Orelli	Merck-Schering Doesn't Look So Good Revenue is stagnant; let's hope that pipeline pans out.
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.
BusinessWeek December 22, 2003 Robert Barker	A Stimulant For Depressed Drug Stocks? For a bunch of can't-miss stocks, the big drugmakers sure did miss out on 2003's bull run. The dozen drug companies in the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index have returned 10% this year, vs. the index' 22%. But the market is now failing to credit the companies' strengths.
The Motley Fool January 25, 2005 Stephen D. Simpson	Schering-Plough Turning a Corner The troubled pharmaceutical company begins to show signs of life. Investors looking for a more stable play would do well to look at other shares instead.
The Motley Fool October 23, 2006 Brian Lawler	The New Schering-Plough Possibly the cheapest large-cap pharmaceutical company compared with its growth potential, the new Schering-Plough is no dirt. Investors craving only one domestic large-cap pharma stock might be happiest with the new Schering.
The Motley Fool February 16, 2010 Brian Orelli	Merck Gets a Pass, for Now Its first quarter looks promising, but not as good as could be hoped.
The Motley Fool July 30, 2010 Brian Orelli	It's Hard to Get Excited About 92% Revenue Growth Especially when revenue dropped on a comparable basis.
The Motley Fool April 21, 2009 Brian Orelli	Schering and Merck: A Match Made in Purgatory Until Merck can show that it's capable of growing sales again, investors should be leery of stepping in, even with the dividend yield pushing 6%.
BusinessWeek September 20, 2004 Amy Barrett	Merck: Who Will Revive The Giant? Earnings and new-drug disappointments have investors worried about succession.
The Motley Fool June 11, 2007 Brian Lawler	Overseas Action for SGP Schering gets an expanded label and begins marketing another drug overseas. Investors often overlook the importance that markets outside the U.S. offer for pharmaceutical products.
The Motley Fool April 24, 2008 Brian Orelli	Is Schering-Plough the Comeback Kid? Schering posts an OK quarter despite the slowdown in sales of its cholesterol drugs.
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 May 12, 2009 Brian Orelli	Another Reason to Hate Big Pharma's M&A As we get closer to Pfizer and Merck wrapping up their deals, it looks like a new group is voicing their displeasure: external partners.
The Motley Fool August 14, 2009 Brian Orelli	The Schizophrenic Drug Approval Schering's drug gets a thumbs-up.
The Motley Fool June 30, 2009 Brian Orelli	Johnson & Johnson Inflames Abbott $1.67 billion is one hefty reward.
The Motley Fool April 15, 2011 Brian Orelli	Dark Clouds Lift Over Pharma Dispute The case of who bought whom in the Merck -Schering-Plough deal has ended in a draw.
The Motley Fool March 11, 2011 Brian Orelli	Johnson & Johnson Gets a Slap on the Wrist The consent decree could have been a lot worse.
The Motley Fool July 30, 2009 Brian Orelli	Merck, Sanofi, and Schering's Love Triangle Perhaps the most complicated deal of the year.
The Motley Fool September 29, 2011 Brian Orelli	Joint-Venture Acid Reflux Merck ditches its joint venture with Johnson & Johnson.
The Motley Fool October 23, 2007 Brian Orelli	Schering Ploughed Down Investors punish the pharmaceutical company when it misses Wall Street expectations following 11 consecutive quarters of double-digit sales growth.
The Motley Fool August 7, 2007 Brian Orelli	Financing Your Acquisition Schering-Plough is one step closer to financing its $14 billion acquisition of the Organon BioSciences unit of Akzo Nobel, by making an official stock offering.
The Motley Fool April 27, 2009 Brian Orelli	Johnson & Johnson's Simponi Sticks to the Wall Johnson & Johnson gets its second-generation TNF-alpha inhibitor past the FDA.
The Motley Fool September 22, 2008 Brian Orelli	Let's Bail Out Pharma Next Schering-Plough is cutting jobs. Maybe the government should help out?
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 February 3, 2011 Brian Orelli	Get Ready for Merck's Bumpy Ride Long-term earnings guidance gets thrown out the window.
The Motley Fool November 25, 2008 Brian Orelli	Schering's Peacock Imitation The company lays out its pipeline for investors to see; there are some potential blockbusters waiting there.
The Motley Fool November 25, 2009 Brian Orelli	A Schizophrenic Move by Merck? Issue $29 billion in shares, buy back $3 billion. Say what? Merck increased its share count by almost 45% to pay for the acquisition of Schering-Plough. Now it's planning to buy some of that stock back.
The Motley Fool February 13, 2008 Brian Orelli	Schering-Plough Has No Love for the Media Apart from the press bashing regarding the company's cholesterol-lowering drug Enhance, Schering reported a pretty nice quarter.
The Motley Fool April 22, 2008 Brian Orelli	Will Merck Make It? Merck releases first-quarter results and says it can meet its previous guidance.
The Motley Fool March 2, 2010 Brian Orelli	Merck: Poised for Growth and Eager to Go Merck needs its new, stronger, post-acquisition pipeline to pay off.
Chemistry World March 13, 2009 Sarah Houlton	Mega mergers sweep pharma industry Just six weeks after Pfizer agreed to buy Wyeth, US pharma companies Merck & Co. and Schering-Plough announced they are to merge.
The Motley Fool July 8, 2010 Brian Orelli	Surprise Us in a Good Way, Merck Keeping up productivity during plant closures won't be easy.
The Motley Fool June 12, 2008 Brian Orelli	Schering-Plough and J&J Score a Triple-Triple Schering-Plough and Johnson & Johnson present three phase 3 trials for a single drug, their anti-TNF medication golimumab.
The Motley Fool October 21, 2008 Brian Orelli	Schering Buys Great Growth Acquiring Organon Biosciences saves the company from a rough quarter.
The Motley Fool September 30, 2009 Brian Orelli	Bigger Size, Lower Returns History is not on Merck and Schering's side.
BusinessWeek May 14, 2007 Arlene Weintraub	Schering-Plough Climbs Out Of Its Sickbed Fred Hassan said getting drugmaker Schering-Plough on its feet might take years. Investors are beginning to see the virtues of patience
The Motley Fool February 9, 2009 Robert Steyer	Just Say No to Drug Company Mergers There are some reasons to make a big-pharma deal. But there are as many, if not more, reasons to let these companies pursue smaller deals and collaborations rather than become just another part of a hyphenated corporate name.
The Motley Fool October 2, 2007 Billy Fisher	Closure for Bristol-Myers Bristol-Myers will pay $515 million to resolve cases from state and federal authorities alleging that the company promoted products for uses that hadn't been approved by the FDA.
The Motley Fool March 18, 2009 Brian Orelli	Merck Pummels Pfizer One of these acquisitions is not like the other.
The Motley Fool July 24, 2007 Brian Lawler	Schering Doesn't Slow Schering-Plough continues its strong sales and earnings growth, but it has a big acquisition to digest in coming quarters.
The Motley Fool July 22, 2008 Brian Orelli	Drug Duo SEAS Disappointment -- Again After numerous disappointments this year, Merck and Schering-Plough continue their string of bad luck.
The Motley Fool July 24, 2006 Stephen D. Simpson	Can Schering-Plough Continue to Shine? Cost-cutting and cholesterol drug sales continue apace, but is the company vulnerable? Investors, take note.