Similar Articles

Browse Main Topics:

Business
Computers & Electronics
Education & Reference
Entertainment & Leisure
Family & Home
Finance & Investment
Health
Internet
Pets & Animals
Science & Technology
Society, Politics & Culture
Sports & Recreation

Similar Articles

The Motley Fool March 4, 2011 Brian Orelli	Pfizer's Biggest Shot at Lipitor 2.0 It might need a little help from competitors.
The Motley Fool November 8, 2010 Brian Orelli	No Sticking Point Here: Pfizer's Potential Blockbuster Works Translating successful phase 2 results into a positive phase 3 trial can require a bit of luck, especially for a disease such as rheumatoid arthritis where the outcomes are somewhat subjective.
The Motley Fool October 8, 2010 Brian Orelli	Pfizer's Rash (of Bad News) Is Over Data from Pfizer's phase 2 trial testing tasocitinib against psoriasis, a painful autoimmune skin disease, looks promising even given its small size.
The Motley Fool December 11, 2009 Brian Orelli	Roche and Biogen's Blockbuster Making Good Progress Roche and Biogen move their potential blockbuster through the clinical trial maze.
The Motley Fool June 26, 2009 Brian Orelli	The $16 Billion Market That Could Make You Rich A large market just waiting to be taken over.
The Motley Fool July 9, 2009 Brian Orelli	Yes! It Can Handle the Pressure Rigel Pharmaceuticals' latest tests show that the side effects from its rheumatoid arthritis drug candidate R788 are manageable.
The Motley Fool July 14, 2011 Brian Orelli	Good Data, but Lots of Competition Regeneron's sarilumab passes a phase 2b trial.
The Motley Fool December 22, 2009 Brian Orelli	Some Incyte Into Why These Drugs Rock Eli Lilly jumps on the oral-drug-for-rheumatoid-arthritis bandwagon.
The Motley Fool June 22, 2011 Brian Orelli	In-Licensing to the Rescue Abbott's latest deal could help shore things up.
The Motley Fool April 13, 2011 Brian Orelli	Abbott's Potential Billion-Dollar Problem Abbott's Humira forms antibodies in nearly a quarter of patients.
The Motley Fool June 13, 2008 Brian Orelli	Some Insight Into Incyte's Data Incyte's rheumatoid arthritis drug looks promising, according to early numbers.
The Motley Fool May 19, 2010 Brian Orelli	A Potential Blockbuster Bites the Dust. Should You Worry? Despite the gloomy headlines, investors shouldn't be upset that Roche and Biogen Idec have decided to end development of ocrelizumab for rheumatoid arthritis.
The Motley Fool September 6, 2011 Brian Orelli	Better Late Than Never? Maybe. Can Vertex's rheumatoid arthritis drug, VX-509, succeed this late in the game?
The Motley Fool June 15, 2010 Brian Orelli	Pfizer Focuses, Investors Should Cheer The culling of the pipeline continues at Pfizer. While that's bad news for partners that signed on with the company or with Wyeth before the merger it's a good move for Pfizer.
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 August 26, 2009 Brian Orelli	Small Change, Big Impact? A small difference in wording could have a huge effect on sales of Bristol-Myers Squibb's Orencia.
The Motley Fool November 10, 2009 Brian Orelli	Small Acquisitions and the Road to Success Bristol-Myers is taking a different route to bulk up. It announced licensing of a phase 2 rheumatoid arthritis drug, ALD518, from privately held Alder Biopharmaceuticals.
The Motley Fool February 17, 2010 Brian Orelli	$1.24 Billion Deal. Shares Fall 9%. That Makes Sense. Rigel Pharmaceuticals signed up AstraZeneca to take over development of its phase 2 rheumatoid arthritis drug, R788, with more than $1.24 billion in potential payments, and the shares fell more than 9%.
The Motley Fool August 3, 2011 Brian Orelli	Ignore Pfizer's Financials for Now It's the pipeline that matters.
The Motley Fool May 11, 2011 Brian Orelli	Abbott's Lucky Number Seven might be Abbott Labs' Humira's lucky number. The anti-inflammatory is up for approval in its seventh indication and the data looks pretty good.
The Motley Fool September 8, 2008 Brian Orelli	Another FDA Safety Warning (Yawn) The FDA warning results from numerous reports of fungal infections in patients taking TNF inhibitors.
The Motley Fool June 5, 2008 Brian Lawler	Cancer Concerns Fuel FDA Inquiry The agency examines a class of blockbuster drugs for a link to cancer in young patients.
The Motley Fool April 24, 2009 Brian Orelli	The Economy Strikes Again Amgen isn't recession-proof either.
The Motley Fool October 7, 2008 Brian Orelli	Will a Better Drug Sell Better? Positive trial data isn't enough to significantly boost Johnson & Johnson's Remicade.
The Motley Fool December 15, 2010 Brian Orelli	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 April 27, 2009 Brian Orelli	Johnson & Johnson's Simponi Sticks to the Wall Johnson & Johnson gets its second-generation TNF-alpha inhibitor past the FDA.
The Motley Fool November 30, 2011 Brian Orelli	3 Things More Important to Pfizer Than Losing Lipitor It's not like we didn't see it coming.
The Motley Fool June 16, 2008 Brian Orelli	More Cancer Issues for Johnson & Johnson Potential cancer-causing side effects of Johnson & Johnson's drugs are like a tumor that continues to grow on the company.
The Motley Fool July 29, 2009 Brian Orelli	Ignore These Companies at Your Peril You may not want to invest in them, but don't ignore them.
The Motley Fool March 31, 2011 Brian Orelli	Hepatitis C Drugs Heat Up The current hepatitis C drugs stink. Who's ahead in the race to find new ones?
The Motley Fool January 3, 2011 Brian Orelli	Clinical Trial Results Fail to Inspire Inspire Pharma gets cut in half after a cystic fibrosis trial failure.
Pharmaceutical Executive December 1, 2010 Walter Armstrong	Rheumatoid Arthritis: JAKing Down Inflammation In the race to market the first oral drug to compete with high-priced injectables for rheumatoid arthritis, Pfizer's tasocitinib has the home-stretch lead over Rigel, Vertex, and Incyte.
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.
BusinessWeek March 14, 2005 Arnst & Barrett	Another Ailing Miracle Drug Biogen's troubles with Tysabri are a setback for immune-system treatments
The Motley Fool February 10, 2004 David Nierengarten	The Psoriasis Wars The pharma heavies are battling for the chronic skin disease's market.
The Motley Fool August 28, 2009 Brian Orelli	Abbott Signs Up Another One Abbott announces that it has set up a partnership with Pfizer to run tests on Pfizer's new drug.
The Motley Fool April 29, 2011 Brian Orelli	Oral Multiple Sclerosis Drugs Heat Up Watch out Novartis and Gilenya.
The Motley Fool July 15, 2009 Brian Orelli	Less Inflammation From Abbott's Quarter Humira is headed back in the right direction.
The Motley Fool June 17, 2004 Brian Gorman	Genentech's Unique Drug Genentech and Biogen Idec's Phase II trial demonstrating Rituxan's effectiveness in treating moderate-to-severe rheumatoid arthritis was enshrined in the prestigious pages of the New England Journal of Medicine, adding heft to the study's results.
The Motley Fool March 1, 2007 Brian Lawler	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 February 24, 2011 Brian Orelli	Profit From Personalized Medicine Pfizer's drug works well, but consider these companies instead.
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 September 7, 2010 Luke Timmerman	Vertex Nails Third Big Trial With Hepatitis C Drug And in the toughest patients to treat, too.
Chemistry World February 4, 2009 Matt Wilkinson	GSK targets autoimmune biologics GSK recently signed seven drug development deals that could see the company release a suite of drugs to treat inflammatory diseases ranging from rheumatoid arthritis to lupus.
The Motley Fool October 20, 2011 Brian Orelli	Mini J&J? I Guess Not Abbott says it plans to split in two: drugs in one company, everything else in the other.
The Motley Fool December 17, 2004 W.D. Crotty	Painful Pain Drugs Pfizer joins Merck in the COX-2 inhibitor penalty box. Pfizer's stock, has drifted down since the Vioxx news.
The Motley Fool January 12, 2012 Brian Orelli	What to Look For From Pfizer in 2012 Leaner? Yes. Meaner? We'll see.
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 June 29, 2007 Rich Duprey	No More Mr. NICE Guy Pharmaceuticals take British advisory agency to court to approve Alzheimer's treatment.
The Motley Fool February 25, 2008 Brian Orelli	The Biologic That Keeps on Giving Just a month after Abbott Laboratories receives a fifth approval for its anti-inflammatory Humira, the FDA approved the biotech drug to treat yet another disease.