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A Costly Missed Connection Dimebon's phase 3 failure costs Medivation shareholders 67%. |
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Different Name, Same Great Results Incyte and Novartis' ruxolitinib passes another clinical trial. |
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September 6, 2011
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Better Late Than Never? Maybe. Can Vertex's rheumatoid arthritis drug, VX-509, succeed this late in the game? |
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March 31, 2009
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Pharma's Refreshing Bad News Schering-Plough and Eli Lilly both present data at scientific meetings over the weekend about drugs that failed their clinical trials, but it's not bad news. |
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February 16, 2010
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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
March 1, 2007
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Know Your Drug Stock ABCs: Part 2 Investing in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries can be difficult. Here are terms investors should know to better understand how the clinical trial process involved with bringing a drug to market works. |
The Motley Fool
September 8, 2010
Brian Orelli |
You Must Realize This Drug Works by Now Vertex concludes its phase 3 trials with another win. |
The Motley Fool
September 10, 2010
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A Potential Blockbuster Roars Ahead Johnson & Johnson made a good choice to purchase Cougar Biotechnology. |
Wired
August 24, 2009
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Placebos Are Getting More Effective. Drugmakers Are Desperate to Know Why. The fact that taking a faux drug can powerfully improve some people's health -- the so-called placebo effect -- has long been considered an embarrassment to the serious practice of pharmacology. |
The Motley Fool
March 4, 2011
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Pfizer's Biggest Shot at Lipitor 2.0 It might need a little help from competitors. |
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January 29, 2010
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How to Make Billions of Dollars Without Really Trying Lackluster Alzheimer's drugs have been doing it for years. |
The Motley Fool
March 29, 2010
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Look for Companies That Strike First Head-to-head trials, whether they're run by companies or by third parties, can be scary. But the way to make big money is by selling drugs that offer superior benefits, so investors should welcome the onslaught of upcoming comparative trial data. |
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
August 31, 2010
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Drugmakers May Lose a Back Door for Drug Approval Non-inferiority trials may be inferior. |
The Motley Fool
December 14, 2006
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Vertex: Coming Together Nicely If telaprevir continues to show anything like the 80%-90% rate of undetectable hepatitis C virus at end of its trials, Vertex shareholders won't be dealing with too many more down days. |
The Motley Fool
January 3, 2012
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High Expectations Trump Solid Results AVEO slumps despite solid results for tivozanib. |
The Motley Fool
December 31, 2010
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2010 FDA Approvals and a Look Ahead Recent history can help us handicap FDA decisions. |
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June 4, 2010
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This Cancer Drug's on a Roll Novartis' Afinitor scores another win. |
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January 3, 2011
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Clinical Trial Results Fail to Inspire Inspire Pharma gets cut in half after a cystic fibrosis trial failure. |
The Motley Fool
March 31, 2011
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Hepatitis C Drugs Heat Up The current hepatitis C drugs stink. Who's ahead in the race to find new ones? |
The Motley Fool
April 3, 2009
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Pfizer + Sutent = One Exciting Roller Coaster This time on the down slope, unfortunately. |
The Motley Fool
May 19, 2010
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The Biggest-Little Biotechs in the World If you do decide to invest in these biotechs before they've secured phase 3 results make sure you know what you're getting yourself into and aren't blindly following the crowd. |
The Motley Fool
September 27, 2010
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Better Buy: Ariad Pharmaceuticals or Corcept Therapeutics? A battle of drugless companies looking for their first hit. |
The Motley Fool
September 20, 2010
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Potential Blockbuster, No Me-Too About It A diabetes-fighting duo do it right this time. |
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October 9, 2008
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When Science, Marketing, and Investing Collide How a pharmaceutical tries to sell more drugs can provide clues about its management. |
The Motley Fool
December 15, 2010
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Beautiful Efficacy, Wrong Pill Lexicon Pharmaceuticals presented beautiful data showing a pill it gave rheumatoid arthritis patients decreased symptoms in 49% of patients. Unfortunately, the pill was a dummy pill with no active ingredient. |
The Motley Fool
October 11, 2010
Brian Orelli |
A Dendreon Killer? Not Yet. Johnson & Johnson's abiraterone looks good, but won't knock off the newcomer. |
The Motley Fool
April 28, 2009
Brian Orelli |
Headline? Bad! Unexpected? No! For a company that only has one drug on the market, stopping a failing phase 3 clinical trial that's designed to expand the market of that drug is usually a major blow. But Onyx Pharmaceuticals was able to shrug it off. |
The Motley Fool
May 17, 2010
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Vertex Awaits Final Proof that Hepatitis C Drug Works For this drug researcher, the proof is in the telaprevir. |
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January 18, 2011
Brian Orelli |
Up 30%, Succeed Indeed! An aptly named clinical trial bodes well for Ariad Pharmaceuticals. |
The Motley Fool
June 15, 2010
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Just Enough to Give Investors Hope Hitting a secondary endpoint means all is not lost for Onyx's lung cancer drug. |
The Motley Fool
June 9, 2010
Brian Orelli |
The Drug Passed, but the Stock Fell? Regeneron only bats .500. |
The Motley Fool
February 13, 2007
Brian Lawler |
Rock-Solid News From Onyx Results show that the drug Nexavar works in another type of cancer. But investors need to consider other issues when taking a closer look at this pharma. |
The Motley Fool
January 30, 2009
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Mark Your Calendars: The Race Is On! In the last couple of weeks, both Schering-Plough and Vertex Pharmaceuticals have announced that their phase 3 hepatitis C drugs trials have finished enrolling patients. |
The Motley Fool
March 30, 2010
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Invest in This Space at Your Own Risk Lung cancer is a tough foe for drugmakers. |
The Motley Fool
April 16, 2010
Brian Orelli |
It'll Be a Blockbuster! High Fives All Around, Right? Sanofi-aventis releases top-line data for its phase 3 diabetes drug candidate, lixisenatide. The trial was a success, but don't pencil it in as a blockbuster just yet. |
The Motley Fool
May 28, 2010
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Innovators Will Rule the Economic Crisis Roche's CEO says two areas of health care can prosper. I agree. |
The Motley Fool
January 31, 2011
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Better Buy: Amarin or Clinical Data? A battle of the takeover targets. |
The Motley Fool
January 28, 2008
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Vertex Has a Lot to Prove Vertex Pharmaceuticals announces that final results from its upcoming phase 3 trials wouldn't be ready until the middle of 2010, a far cry from the filing in 2008 that Vertex was previously forecasting. |
The Motley Fool
November 18, 2009
Brian Orelli |
VIVUS Gets a Spark A new erectile-dysfunction drug shows promise. |
Chemistry World
February 26, 2008
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Q and A: Do Antidepressants Work? A widely-reported analysis of clinical trial data for Prozac and related antidepressant drugs has claimed that the medicines work little better than chemically-inactive placebos in all but the most severely depressed patients. |
The Motley Fool
August 27, 2007
Brian Orelli |
Onyx: Old News Is Good News Onyx set a 52-week high today, even though the good news wasn't all that new. After the recent dearth of FDA approvals, investors may be flocking to a drug that's nearly certain to get the agency's thumbs-up. |
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
August 17, 2010
Brian Orelli |
Forget About This Drug Saving the Company Lilly's Alzheimer's drug fails hard. |
The Motley Fool
March 25, 2011
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Pfile Pfizer Under "Potential" Researchers reported promising finding from a clinical trial of Pfizer's new drug, CP-870,893, in pancreatic cancer patients in the most recent issue of the journal Science. |
The Motley Fool
February 26, 2010
Brian Orelli |
A Risky Deal, but at Least It's Cheap Glaxo licenses a preclinical compound from Regulus. |
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September 7, 2007
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Clinical Data Gets Personal Clinical Data's lead compound Vilazodone posts strong phase 3 results. The company is searching for common genetic markers among patients who responded positively to the drug. |
The Motley Fool
January 24, 2005
Rich Duprey |
No Taking Chances With Reminyl Johnson & Johnson's daffodil-extract Alzheimer's treatment yanked from market. Shares are off only 1% or so. |
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September 7, 2010
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Vertex Nails Third Big Trial With Hepatitis C Drug And in the toughest patients to treat, too. |
