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The Motley Fool November 3, 2006 Brian Lawler	Nektar Worth Waiting For? Investors might be getting impatient, but the new insulin the company makes is special.
The Motley Fool November 13, 2007 Brian Lawler	Nektar's New Old Drug Pfizer returns its non-selling inhalable insulin experiment Exubera to Nektar Therapeutics today, along with $135 million in cash.
The Motley Fool May 29, 2007 Brian Lawler	Nektar Squeezes Itself Nektar Therapeutics cuts costs after a slower rollout of its lead compound. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool February 29, 2008 Brian Lawler	Nektar Squeezing Along Nektar Therapeutics finishes a topsy-turvy 2007, and gives some good guidance for upcoming year.
The Motley Fool May 22, 2006 Stephen D. Simpson	Nektar Full of Potential, Risk Can inhaled insulin sales live up to investors' expectations at Nektar Therapeutics?
The Motley Fool April 10, 2008 Brian Lawler	Nektar Can't Squeeze Nectar From This Drug Nektar Therapeutics announced that it was putting its inhaled insulin drug, Exubera, to rest. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool October 19, 2007 Brian Lawler	The Exubera Winner In its third-quarter earnings report, Pfizer announces it is surrendering the rights to market inhalable-insulin treatment Exubera to developer Nektar Therapeutics. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool December 1, 2004 Brian Gorman	Rational Exuberance Nektar received a positive boost from Pfizer's announcement that it will seek approval for Exubera, an inhaled form of insulin. The drug delivery specialist's stock promptly surged, closing up 23% yesterday.
The Motley Fool September 9, 2005 Stephen D. Simpson	Diabetics Breathing Easier Investors in Pfizer, Sanofi-Aventis, and Nektar Therapeutics might be breathing a bit easier today. The FDA's expert panel recommended approval for Exubera.
The Motley Fool January 13, 2006 Stephen D. Simpson	Pfizer Pays Sanofi to Go Away Two large pharmaceutical companies settle a dispute over inhaled insulin, and $1.3 billion changes hands. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool August 7, 2007 Brian Lawler	Nektar Makes a Deal Nektar Therapeutics signs a deal with Bayer AG in an effort to move itself closer to profitability. In return, Bayer gets a co-promotion profit-sharing deal in the U.S., and commercialization rights elsewhere.
The Motley Fool January 28, 2010 Brian Orelli	How to Make a Billion Bucks in Biotech Drug companies and investors alike have to balance the risk and reward.
The Motley Fool January 16, 2008 Brian Lawler	Another Inhalable Insulin Bites the Dust Novo Nordisk discontinues development of its troubled diabetes treatment and settles its patent infringement lawsuit against Pfizer. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool August 6, 2007 Brian Lawler	Unhappy Delays for MannKind Two delays for the inhalable insulin developer cause the stock to drop.
The Motley Fool December 5, 2008 Brian Orelli	Be Kind to MannKind MannKind has good data on its inhaled insulin drug, but will the FDA approve of it and will diabetics buy it?
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 June 19, 2009 Robert Steyer	MannKind Needs More Leaps Getting FDA approval for its inhaled-insulin product is only one hurdle for this start-up pharmaceutical.
The Motley Fool May 6, 2008 Brian Lawler	MannKind Moves Ahead The pharmaceutical awaits pivotal data on its lead drug Technosphere.
The Motley Fool March 2, 2005 Bill Mann	How Hated Is Pfizer? The FDA accepts Pfizer's application for what could be a monster drug, and the market yawns.
The Motley Fool March 16, 2010 Brian Orelli	How to Lose $114 Million in One Day You've got to be a very trusting investor to buy shares in pharmaceutical company, MannKind.
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The Motley Fool March 20, 2008 Brian Lawler	The AIR's Knocked Out of Alkermes Drug developer Alkermes initiates a round of cost-cutting.
The Motley Fool April 14, 2008 Brian Lawler	MannKind Gets Smacked by Big Brother's Bad News Bad news for a competitor sinks MannKind shares.
The Motley Fool September 22, 2009 Brian Orelli	Nektar Tastes Sweet Nektar is getting an up-front payment of $125 million and AstraZeneca is taking over development of two of its compounds.
The Motley Fool September 19, 2006 Brian Lawler	A Long Wait for MannKind The company's inhaled insulin might not reach the market for several years, if it does, but it's a big market. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool June 11, 2010 Brian Orelli	Double-Digit Pop Because the Drug Still Works? Developments at Mannkind's shareholder meeting send stock soaring.
The Motley Fool October 22, 2007 Brian Lawler	Not Another Pfizer Pfailure As Pfizer's top execs have said before, losing patent protections on many of its top products around the same time makes for a difficult operating environment. Pfizer's third-quarter results showed just how difficult those losses were.
The Motley Fool June 11, 2007 Brian Lawler	More Air for Alkermes The biopharmaceutical drug delivery expert brings another drug into clinic stage testing. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool June 27, 2005 Stephen D. Simpson	Sniffing Out a Possible Diabetes Blockbuster Inhaled insulin has been a Holy Grail of diabetes care. Will it live up to lofty expectations? Pfizer, Sanofi-Aventis, and Lilly are all interesting in their own right as high-quality pharmaceutical companies, and more aggressive investors should take a look at Nektar and Alkermes, as well.
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The Motley Fool September 22, 2010 Brian Orelli	Better Buy: Amylin Pharmaceuticals or MannKind? It's a diabetes-drug showdown.
The Motley Fool September 28, 2010 Brian Orelli	Don't Get Stuck! Invest in Needle-Free Drugs Here's how to make some money off society's general disdain for needles through next-generation drugs.
The Motley Fool June 26, 2009 Brian Orelli	Rumors and Safety Issues -- One Bad Combination There are rumors floating around that a study will show that use of Sanofi's insulin product, Lantus, has an increased risk of cancer.
The Motley Fool November 5, 2007 Brian Lawler	Follow the Trend With Novo Nordisk The future is bright for Danish drugmaker Novo Nordisk. The worldwide leader in diabetes treatments turns in another good quarter.
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The Motley Fool February 10, 2006 Brian Gorman	Pfizer in Pflux The company is working on its transition, but things still look fairly murky for investors.
The Motley Fool October 20, 2006 Brian Lawler	Pfizer Keeps Fighting If Pfizer's management can succeed on its cost-savings initiatives and maintain the high single digits of earnings-per-share growth that it expects in 2007-2008, then Pfizer may make a good investment for those willing to wait for the company's new drugs to bring back higher growth.
The Motley Fool October 15, 2007 Brian Lawler	Save Your Cash, Pfizer A multibillion-dollar stake in Sanofi wouldn't fix Pfizer's problems. Investors, take note.
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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?
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The Motley Fool February 29, 2008 Brian Orelli	2007 Pharma Roundup How did big pharma do in 2007? With the drug sector earnings season winding down, now seems like a good time to take a look at how they fared and, more importantly, where they're headed.
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The Motley Fool April 19, 2005 Stephen D. Simpson	Pfizer Fosters Fertile Future Results in the "here and now" aren't bad, but it will take a couple of years to build growth. Of course, investors must do their own research and make their own decisions.
The Motley Fool April 11, 2007 Brian Lawler	Get Rich With These Guys Regardless of what type of long-term investment strategy you use, finding companies created under the auspices of proven entrepreneurs such as Moll, Zaffaroni, and Mann and then sticking with them for the long run is one path to investing riches.
The Motley Fool September 6, 2005 Stephen D. Simpson	FDA's Eye on 2 Potential Blockbusters This week, FDA advisory panels will consider the marketing approval applications of Exubera, the inhaled insulin from Pfizer/Sanofi/Nektar, and Pargluva, the dual PPAR agonist, taken in pill form, from Bristol-Myers and Merck. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool September 29, 2006 Brian Lawler	Pfizer Helps France Kick Butts Europe approves the pharmaceutical's new drug to help smokers quit. Activities like this drug approval, and the molecule licensing earlier this week from privately held Quark Biotech, should eventually reignite Pfizer's moribund revenue growth.