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The Motley Fool April 19, 2006 Stephen D. Simpson	Abbott Gets By Will the acquisition of Guidant's vascular business kick-start this story? Abbott has shown a pretty reliable trend of getting cheap enough to buy at least once a year. Of course, the downside to that is that the stock really hasn't gone anywhere in those seven years.
The Motley Fool January 25, 2006 Stephen D. Simpson	Abbott Wins No matter what Boston Scientific does with Guidant, Abbott looks like a winner. This stock might not offer a rocket ride the way smaller biotechs and med-tech companies do, but at today's prices, at least you won't have to worry about a fiery re-entry.
The Motley Fool June 4, 2010 Jim Mueller	The Changing Face of Abbott Abbott Labs' shift in revenue sources has been a boon over the last five years.
The Motley Fool April 22, 2010 Brian Orelli	Abbott's Stuck in a Double-Digit Rut The company keeps cranking out solid earnings, but investors don't seem to care.
The Motley Fool January 22, 2009 Brian Orelli	Abbott Labs Thumbs Nose at Recession On a GAAP basis, Abbott Labs fourth-quarter earnings per share were up a whopping 27%, and even better, the double-digit increases don't look like they're going to stop anytime soon.
The Motley Fool January 27, 2010 Brian Orelli	Humira or Not, Abbott's on a Roll Investors worry about how Abbott's Humira is such a large fraction of the company's revenue, and then when the company turns in a nice quarter even without strong U.S. sales of Humira, they complain about that.
The Motley Fool October 18, 2006 Brian Lawler	Is a Buyback the Best Abbott Can Do? Abbott Labs may be out of ideas for its cash. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool October 15, 2008 Brian Orelli	Abbott's Stents Aren't (That) Important Abbott's shareholders shouldn't be too focused on drug-eluting stents.
The Motley Fool July 31, 2006 Stephen D. Simpson	Can Boston Scientific Get It Right? To boost investor confidence, management must first prove itself.
The Motley Fool September 28, 2009 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Abbott Labs Looks Less Lopsided Abbott Labs' $6.6 billion purchase of Solvay's pharmaceuticals business is just what the doctor ordered.
The Motley Fool July 13, 2005 Stephen D. Simpson	Is Abbott's Ailment Serious? There's room for improvement at Abbott Labs, but this is one solid and broadly diversified company. Shares aren't a screaming bargain, but the current price-to-earnings ratio really isn't out of line with history.
The Motley Fool July 7, 2008 Brian Orelli	And Then There Were 4 The number of drug-eluting stent players in the U.S. doubles with the addition of Medtronic's Endeavor and Abbott Labs' Xience V.
The Motley Fool April 8, 2005 Stephen D. Simpson	Abbott Hopes to Maxx Out Abbott announced FDA approval to begin a pivotal trial for its drug-eluting stent. Will this be too little too late for shareholders, or a true dark horse?
The Motley Fool February 7, 2006 Stephen D. Simpson	Boston Scientific's Big Task The company won the battle for Guidant, but the hard work hasn't even begun. Value is value, and if Boston Scientific proves it can handle the considerable challenges ahead, this could ultimately be a very interesting stock again.
The Motley Fool October 23, 2008 Brian Orelli	Boston Scientific Should Be Thankful The medical device maker's two-year-old acquisition of Guidant has saved it in the third quarter.
The Motley Fool April 17, 2008 Brian Orelli	Abbott's Not Ailing Abbott produces double-digit growth; investors yawn.
The Motley Fool May 27, 2010 Brian Orelli	Ever-Evolving Stent Technology (and How to Profit From It) Stay ahead of the curve.
The Motley Fool January 30, 2007 Brian Lawler	Is Bigger Better for Abbott Labs? Abbott continues its transformation into a more focused pharmaceutical powerhouse. But shares of this pharmaceutical aren't exactly cheap.
The Motley Fool April 15, 2009 Brian Orelli	Abbott's on Sale Abbott isn't firing on all cylinders the way it was last year, but things still look fine, and the stock is selling at a discount right now.
The Motley Fool May 25, 2010 Brian Orelli	Medtronic Gets Tossed Out With the Bathwater A bad day to report good news.
The Motley Fool May 14, 2008 Brian Orelli	Abbott Knocks Down Boston Scientific Abbott Labs proves its drug-eluting device works better than its competitors as it presented more data from its ongoing Spirit III trial.
The Motley Fool July 17, 2008 Brian Orelli	Investors Yawn at Abbott Labs' Growth Abbott Labs may be firing on all cylinders, but investors were less than impressed with its earnings release
The Motley Fool February 24, 2004 Alyce Lomax	J&J, Guidant Join Forces With intense rivalry looming, is a competitive partnership in vain?
The Motley Fool January 29, 2009 Brian Orelli	No Buyer's Remorse at Boston Scientific The pacemakers and defibrillators that Guidant contributed to Boston Scientific's bottom line are still growing strong, but the company had to take a whopping $2.7 billion goodwill writedown because the value of what it purchased has changed.
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 October 13, 2008 Brian Orelli	Too Little Too Late for Boston Scientific The company gets new stent approved, but it should have happened earlier.
The Motley Fool April 23, 2008 Brian Orelli	Boston Scientific Gets It Done After a rough 2007, it looks like Boston Scientific is turning itself around from the bottom up.
The Motley Fool October 19, 2005 Stephen D. Simpson	Abbott Still a Little Pale Perhaps drug and device pipelines, plus margin improvements, can put some color back into the diversified health-care company's stock.
The Motley Fool February 12, 2010 Brian Orelli	Too Bad It's Not in the "Restructuring" Business Shares of Boston Scientific slipped nearly 10% yesterday, after the company released earnings and guidance for this year.
The Motley Fool January 17, 2006 Stephen D. Simpson	High-Stakes Medical Device Chicken Boston Scientific has upped the ante again. Are they bluffing? Their latest offer is $80 a share -- $42 in cash and $38 in stock. Let's hope the board knows what it is doing, because it is staking the company on this.
The Motley Fool May 29, 2008 Brian Orelli	Medtronic Sticks It to Boston Scientific Medtronic wins the medical-device patent duel with Boston Scientific.
The Motley Fool September 30, 2009 Brian Orelli	Bigger Size, Lower Returns History is not on Merck and Schering's side.
BusinessWeek January 29, 2007 Michael Arndt	Abbot Labs: Diagnosis: Shrewd Moves Abbott Laboratories has announced that it is selling about two-thirds of its $4 billion diagnostics business to buy more medical products outfits to help boost overall sales and profits by at least 10% a year into the next decade.
The Motley Fool October 14, 2009 Brian Orelli	Consistency Makes This Stock a Winner Abbott turns in a solid quarter, but it needs to keep branching out.
The Motley Fool August 26, 2008 Brian Orelli	Rapid Exchange of Fire Competitors try to block Abbott's patent extension.
The Motley Fool March 15, 2010 Brian Orelli	Clinical Outcomes? Who Needs 'Em. Abbott's TriCor looks good on lab tests, but that's about all.
The Motley Fool February 3, 2011 Brian Orelli	Add This Stock to Your Show-Me List Wait for the turnaround before investing in Boston Scientific; if it ever comes.
The Motley Fool July 23, 2008 Brian Orelli	Leaner Boston Scientific Isn't Looking Healthy Investors are rightfully growing weary of Boston Scientific's ability to cut expenses on flat sales, and they send the stock down.
The Motley Fool September 26, 2005 Stephen D. Simpson	Boston Scientific: Finally Cheap Enough? Could shares of the medical device company now be attractive for long-term investors?
The Motley Fool June 29, 2010 Brian Orelli	Redeploying Capital? Investors Hope So. Selling a business unit won't help Abbott Labs diversify.
The Motley Fool November 9, 2009 Brian Orelli	Guidant: The Gift That Keeps on Giving And not in the good way. Last year, Boston Scientific took a whopping $2.7 billion goodwill writedown because it had to downgrade the value of what it got in acquiring Guidant.
The Motley Fool July 29, 2010 Brian Orelli	Is Abbott a Buy? Whether or not Abbott is a buy depends on management's ability to transition the company.
The Motley Fool March 22, 2004 Seth Jayson	Stent Wars Going Strong New studies show stents do little to stop heart attacks. What does that mean for stent makers?
The Motley Fool April 24, 2007 Ryan Fuhrmann	Boston Scientific Regains Consciousness Recent Boston Scientific results show glimmers of hope. At current prices, the risk/reward tradeoff appears favorable enough to warrant a full checkup on the stock.
The Motley Fool January 23, 2007 Ralph Casale	Win-Win for Abbott and GE? Abbott trades its medical diagnostics segment for cold hard cash. Will shareholders see this deal as a win-win scenario? Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool May 27, 2004 Jeff Hwang	Guidant's Stent Stumble Yesterday, Guidant said that a regulatory filing for marketing approval of its Champion stainless steel stent could be delayed up to six months due to "issues" that may result in "manufacturing process modifications and/or stent design changes."
The Motley Fool January 27, 2011 Brian Orelli	Abbott Labs: Growth in All the Wrong Places Abbott's a solid company with solid dividend and growth potential in the near term. But investors need to be careful extrapolating that growth out.
The Motley Fool May 24, 2006 Stephen D. Simpson	Measuring Up Medtronic Everyone loves the med-tech firm. That makes it a dangerous investment.
The Motley Fool December 16, 2008 Brian Orelli	Doubling Up on Triple Lipid Drugs The Food and Drug Administration gave Abbott Lab's TriLipix the thumbs-up, approving it for use by itself or with statins.
The Motley Fool June 4, 2010 Brian Orelli	Out With Drugs, in With Medical Devices Johnson & Johnson's movement in medical devices and diagnostics is headed in the right direction, but whether Johnson & Johnson is a buy depends a lot on how it handles its current drug problem. Unfortunately investors can't have one without the other.