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The Motley Fool May 27, 2010 Brian Orelli	This Rabid Agency Could Permanently Damage Your Portfolio The FDA has gotten a little out of control. The wonkiness of the FDA's actions makes it hard for investors to figure out what the agency will do.
The Motley Fool November 3, 2009 Brian Orelli	A Little Distracted, Are You, Merck? The FDA rejects its latest application.
The Motley Fool May 18, 2011 Brian Orelli	If You Can't Beat 'Em, Use 'Em to Beat Your New Rival Merck is supposed to be a bitter rival to Roche in the hepatitis C space. Instead, it's extending the hand of friendship.
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 October 23, 2007 Brian Orelli	Old Merck on New Drugs It looks like the old Merck is back, with new drugs driving double-digit sales growth in the third-quarter.
The Motley Fool January 21, 2011 Brian Orelli	Mark Your Calendar, Drug Investors Vertex announces that the Food and Drug Administration has accepted its New Drug Application to market telaprevir.
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 December 5, 2007 Brian Orelli	Merck Stays Conservative Merck sets the bar low with its 2008 guidance. Is the company being overly cautious?
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The Motley Fool October 25, 2007 Brian Lawler	Rope-a-Dope at GSK? Following the negative FDA panel hearings and safety review of diabetes drug Avandia and exchange rate movements against it, revenue fell 3% in the third quarter for GlaxoSmithKline. Operating income and profit were also slightly down.
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 August 4, 2011 Brian Orelli	Pfizer's Long-Shot Lipitor Gamble Don't count on OTC Lipitor anytime soon.
The Motley Fool October 22, 2008 Brian Orelli	Merck's a Bloated Garbage Heap of Stale Drugs Now Merck is planning on cutting 12% of its workforce in the hopes of saving $4 billion through 2013.
The Motley Fool November 29, 2010 Brian Orelli	There's Still Only One Merck KGaA's oral MS drug delay is Novartis' gain.
The Motley Fool September 16, 2010 Brian Orelli	Abbott's Product Line May Get Thinner Not that it needs the obesity drug.
The Motley Fool June 30, 2008 Brian Orelli	A Drug to End Merck's Headache? Merck presents promising data for its phase 3 migraine drug.
The Motley Fool October 5, 2010 Brian Orelli	You Should Have Seen this FDA Rejection Coming This hepatitis C treatment was marked for failure.
The Motley Fool June 24, 2009 Brian Orelli	This Just Makes Me Sick! GlaxoSmithKline's anti-nausea medication Rezonic's marketing approval was turned down by the Food and Drug Administration, reason unknown.
The Motley Fool February 9, 2007	All Systems Go at GlaxoSmithKline: Fool by Numbers The pharma released fourth-quarter 2006 earnings: Income Statement Highlights... Margin Checkup... Balance Sheet Highlights... Cash Flow Highlights...
The Motley Fool June 16, 2011 Brian Orelli	Are Two FDA Approvals in One Week a Positive Sign? Bristol-Myers Squibb received Food and Drug Administration approval for its kidney transplant drug Nulojix yesterday, marking the second approval this week from the FDA.
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The Motley Fool November 13, 2007 Brian Orelli	Another Punch in the Nose for Pfizer The FDA clears ZYRTEC-D for over-the-counter sales; marketing of the medication will now switch hands from Pfizer to Johnson & Johnson. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool April 28, 2011 Brian Orelli	Victory for Victrelis Merck's hepatitis C drug moves one step closer to FDA approval.
The Motley Fool May 28, 2008 Brian Lawler	No Barrier to Deals Like This In the latest example of overlap between the pharmaceutical and consumer-health care industries, Barrier Therapeutics announces that it will package one of its lead prescription drugs with a shampoo sold by Procter & Gamble.
The Motley Fool December 10, 2008 Brian Orelli	Merck: Same Plan, With a Twist With increasing generic competition and languishing sales of cholesterol-lowering drugs Vytorin and Zetia, Merck is doing its best to replace sales by pushing new drugs through its pipeline.
The Motley Fool January 15, 2010 Brian Orelli	Oops, Sorry About That, Pfizer The FDA says there's no problem with Spiriva after all.
The Motley Fool March 24, 2009 Robert Steyer	Drugmakers Diversify -- Again Merck and Pfizer choose businesses they once eschewed.
The Motley Fool June 2, 2010 Brian Orelli	Little Surprise. Big Stock Move. Investors like Amgen's early approval;shares are up 9% today, well ahead of the overall market.
The Motley Fool May 6, 2008 Brian Orelli	A Sign of the Pharma Times Merck is the latest big pharma cutting jobs to improve its bottom line.
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The Motley Fool December 5, 2008 Brian Orelli	Good Luck in 2010, Merck It's not just one problem for Merck, but a whole series of issues that have turned the company into a heap of stale drugs.
The Motley Fool February 18, 2010 Brian Orelli	Still Restless for an Approval The FDA is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're going to get -- rejection or acceptance.
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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 June 23, 2008 Brian Orelli	FDA Sets a Higher Standard for Merck Merck finally comes clean on what the FDA wants before the drug formally known as Cordaptive (MK-0524A) can be approved. From the looks of it, it's going to be a long wait for Merck.
The Motley Fool March 3, 2010 Brian Orelli	Judge's Ruling Has Brand and Generic Drugmakers Smiling A ruling on the patents on Merck's blood pressure medications Cozaar and Hyzaar benefited both Merck and the plaintiff in the suit, generic-drug maker Teva Pharmaceuticals. The defendant in the suit wasn't actually Merck but the Food and Drug Administration.
The Motley Fool August 28, 2007 Brian Orelli	A Combination to Clear Your Head Merck and Schering-Plough get together again. But who can blame them? Their partnerships have been making both companies lots of money. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool May 17, 2011 Luke Timmerman	Merck, Genentech Team Up on Hepatitis C Drug Merck pulling lots of strings to grab market share against Vertex.
The Motley Fool June 26, 2008 Brian Orelli	The FDA's Latest Victim Merck fails to get its Gardasil vaccine approved to treat older women.
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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.
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