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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 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 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 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 November 22, 2010 Brian Orelli	Let's Call It a Partial Victory Merck's Vytorin works better than a placebo. Unfortunately, it may be too little and too late to do anything about the sales cut that Vytorin has taken over the past few years.
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.
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 December 12, 2007 Brian Orelli	Congress Calls Out Merck and Schering-Plough The House of Representatives wants to know what's taking these pharmaceutical companies so long to release trial data from their ENHANCE clinical trial.
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 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 January 31, 2008 Brian Orelli	One Last Look at Pre-Enhance Merck Investors show they care more about Merck's future than its Q4 results.
The Motley Fool December 23, 2009 Brian Orelli	Cancer Isn't Merck's Biggest Problem There's still hope for Merck's Vytorin, but investors will have to wait.
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 July 18, 2008 Brian Orelli	Foolish Forecast: How Quickly Can Merck Turn It Around? Views you can use to get clues on the news.
The Motley Fool August 22, 2008 Brian Orelli	Don't Worry About Vytorin's Cancer Risk While it doesn't seem that the investigations are likely to turn up anything, investors should at least keep up with the amount of news surrounding the Vytorin probe.
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%.
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.
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 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 27, 2008 Brian Orelli	I Heart the ACC What can investors expect from this weekend's blood-pumping American College of Cardiology scientific meeting?
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 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 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 June 30, 2008 Brian Orelli	Merck and Schering Get Half a Divorce The lovey-dovey duo ends their respiratory partnership.
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.
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 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 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.
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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 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 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 September 2, 2008 Brian Orelli	Cardiologists Hate Vytorin Cardiologists seem cynical about the full presentation of Merck's and Schering-Plough's SEAS data at the European Society of Cardiology.
The Motley Fool January 21, 2010 Brian Orelli	Here's That Critical Merck Info You Missed Announcing clinical trial failures in a FAQ? Really?
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The Motley Fool November 20, 2009 Brian Orelli	This Baby Is a Nice Addition A month into an acquisition, and Merck already sees a benefit.
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 November 27, 2007 Brian Orelli	Ploughing Into Acquisition Rewards Schering-Plough reaps its first New Drug Application from its purchase of Organon. Investors, take note.
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The Motley Fool November 10, 2008 Brian Orelli	Drug Fuels an Idling Rocket Ship AstraZeneca needs another FDA approval to really take advantage of its cholesterol drug's success.
The Motley Fool February 3, 2011 Brian Orelli	Get Ready for Merck's Bumpy Ride Long-term earnings guidance gets thrown out the window.
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The Motley Fool August 28, 2008 Brian Orelli	Schering and Pfizer Aren't Horsing Around Schering sells some animal health products to Pfizer to keep the EU happy.
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 August 14, 2009 Brian Orelli	The Schizophrenic Drug Approval Schering's drug gets a thumbs-up.
The Motley Fool January 26, 2006 Rich Duprey	Will Acquisitions Patch Merck's Pipeline? The pharmaceutical giant announces a biotech shopping spree. A few key acquisitions that contribute late-stage drugs and significant revenue might be all Merck needs to keep its pipeline open. Investors, take note.
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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.