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The Motley Fool January 22, 2007 Michael P. Cecil	Will Medicare Negotiate With Drug Companies? One of the bedrock principles of our economic system is that those buying more of a product receive a discount. Wouldn't empowering Medicare to save taxpayers' money be widely embraced as a great idea? But how would pharma investors see it?
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 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 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 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 August 30, 2010 Brian Orelli	Maybe Not a Blockbuster, But We'll Take It Novartis' newest addition, blood pressure medication Tekamlo, isn't going to rocket to the top of the 2020 best seller list, but it's still a nice addition nonetheless.
The Motley Fool January 7, 2010 Brian Orelli	Pfizer Strides Farther Into Generics Pfizer's new look might be just what the doctor ordered.
The Motley Fool February 25, 2010 Brian Orelli	An Untouched Market Waiting to Be Captured Unfilled prescriptions are a potential boon to drug companies.
The Motley Fool March 30, 2011 Sean Williams	China Clamps Down on Drug Manufacturers These drug manufacturers could be feeling a pinch from new Chinese price caps.
The Motley Fool November 30, 2010 Brian Orelli	A Witty Response to Pharma's R&D Dilemma According to GlaxoSmithKline CEO Andrew Witty, the pharmaceutical industry is a mess. That's the basic gist of his opinion piece in The Economist.
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.
The Motley Fool June 25, 2010 Brian Orelli	Mark Your Calendars: Obesity Drugs Take Center Stage Orexigen Therapeutics has been given an FDA advisory committee meeting date, completing the dates for the trio of obesity drugs up for review.
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.
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The Motley Fool October 18, 2010 Brian Orelli	Pfizer Flexes Its Generic Muscles The pharma giant moves farther into generic drugs.
The Motley Fool October 8, 2007 Brian Orelli	New FDA Regulations for Drugmakers To deal with a growing backlog of pending applications, the FDA plans to stop its first-come, first-served system.
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 January 29, 2010 Brian Orelli	How to Make Billions of Dollars Without Really Trying Lackluster Alzheimer's drugs have been doing it for years.
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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 July 12, 2010 Ryan McBride	Synta Pharma CEO Trumpets New Top Cancer Drug Synta Pharmaceuticals has been climbing back from one of the Boston area's highest-profile clinical trial failures of 2009.
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.
The Motley Fool August 31, 2010 Brian Orelli	Drugmakers May Lose a Back Door for Drug Approval Non-inferiority trials may be inferior.
The Motley Fool January 28, 2011 Brian Orelli	Looking Ahead at Bristol-Myers Product approvals now will help with the upcoming patent cliff.
The Motley Fool February 10, 2011 Brian Orelli	Breathe Easier, Join the Competition Novartis' strategy is a good one.
The Motley Fool February 28, 2011 Brian Orelli	Look Out for Big Growth From This Drug Regeneron's ultra-orphan drug Arcalyst takes a step forward toward a wider audience.
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The Motley Fool January 8, 2010 Brian Orelli	Pfizer's Having a Garage Sale Rather than sending its unwanted drugs to the trash bin, the giant drugmaker is striking deals with its comrades to take them off its hands.
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 September 12, 2005 M.D. Mitchell	Big Problems for Big Pharma Creating new drugs is never easy, but the companies that excel in three key areas are the ones for investors to watch.
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 March 22, 2010 Brian Orelli	Health-Care Reform Passes! Here's Where to Invest Now Some healthy suggestions for your portfolio.
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Chemistry World March 25, 2010 Rebecca Trager	Big pharma scores in US healthcare reform President Obama has signed the biggest US healthcare reform since the 1960s, and although it is largely seen as a victory for the pharmaceutical industry, some analysts are characterising it as a 'double-edged sword'.
The Motley Fool August 6, 2007 Brian Orelli	Cheap Drugs on the Farm The House approves a prescription-drug import provision. Investors should keep an eye on the status of the bill, because laws that hurt the drugmakers' bottom lines will hurt their stock prices as well.
The Motley Fool May 11, 2010 Ryan McBride	Clinical Data Seeks to Challenge Lilly, Pfizer in Antidepressant Market The tiny drug developer has no problem going up against bigger rivals.
The Motley Fool June 3, 2011 Brian Orelli	FDA Bullies Obesity Drugmakers It's been clear for some time that the Food and Drug Administration isn't particularly fond of obesity drugs. Now it's just being a bully.
The Motley Fool July 17, 2007 Brian Orelli	An Investor's Guide to the New PDUFA It's important for investors in drug companies to keep up with the latest clinical trial news, but policy changes in Washington can affect companies' bottom lines just as much.
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