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The Motley Fool July 27, 2006 Brian Lawler	Serono Under Attack The pharma lacks a strong pipeline, and competition is heating up. This is a stock to avoid unless there are some great acquisitions or a big decline in the share price.
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The Motley Fool September 21, 2006 Brian Lawler	Sayonara, Serono The tiny, struggling drugmaker succumbs to a surprise buyout by German pharmaceutical company Merck KGaA. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool July 21, 2010 Brian Orelli	Biogen Looks Good Now, but What About Tomorrow? Biogen Idec saw revenue increase 11% and adjusted earnings per share jump almost 75%, which is all well and good, but the longer-term prospects for the company aren't nearly as impressive.
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The Motley Fool July 27, 2010 Brian Orelli	Branded? Generic? They're Both Doing Great! Teva Pharmaceuticals registers strong growth on both fronts.
The Motley Fool May 12, 2011 Brian Orelli	Teva's Mixed Bag Diversification sure helps.
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The Motley Fool January 21, 2011 Brian Orelli	Trouble in Tysabri Land? Patient additions for a drug from Biogen Idec and Elan are slowing down.
The Motley Fool May 26, 2010 Brian Orelli	Blockbuster Drugs Aimed at Busting MS Multiple sclerosis is a large market with more entrants coming.
The Motley Fool April 29, 2011 Brian Orelli	Oral Multiple Sclerosis Drugs Heat Up Watch out Novartis and Gilenya.
The Motley Fool January 12, 2010 Brian Orelli	Tysabri: It's a Blockbuster! Yawn. So What? Is it really a big deal that Tysabri finally achieved blockbuster status?
The Motley Fool November 24, 2004 Charly Travers	A Blockbuster Drug Gains Approval Biogen IDEC and Elan announced that Tysabri had been approved by the FDA for the treatment of muliple sclerosis (MS). Tysabri has long been regarded as a drug that will generate a whopping level of sales.
The Motley Fool October 27, 2010 Brian Orelli	Biogen Idec's Fight-Back Plan Novartis' Gilenya is coming, but Biogen has a backup plan.
The Motley Fool February 28, 2006 Stephen D. Simpson	Still Waiting for Teva to Stumble This leading Israeli generics firm hasn't seen a stock pullback of any consequence since mid- to late 2004. And while fourth-quarter results weren't fabulous, they were good enough given the circumstances
The Motley Fool February 26, 2009 Robert Steyer	Merck KGaA's Good Chemistry This German conglomerate successfully mixes drugs and chemicals.
The Motley Fool December 15, 2008 Brian Orelli	A Potentially Game-Changing MS Drug The newest data looks good, but longer studies will be the key for Novartis.
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The Motley Fool October 31, 2011 Brian Orelli	When You've Got It, You've Got It Biogen keeps its good-news streak going.
The Motley Fool August 17, 2009 Brian Orelli	Preparing for a Home Run Some good news and bad news for companies selling drugs to treat multiple sclerosis, after Novartis announces Extavia has been approved by the FDA.
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The Motley Fool October 18, 2007 Brian Lawler	Genzyme Shows Off a Drug Candidate A top compound in development could become an important MS treatment.
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The Motley Fool June 23, 2011 Brian Orelli	One Less Oral MS Drug to Worry About But competition is still tough.
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The Motley Fool July 23, 2008 Brian Lawler	No Picking at Biogen At a time in which all of its top drugs experienced at least double-digit percentage sales growth, there aren't many issues to poke at with Biogen Idec's just-released second-quarter financial results.
The Motley Fool January 25, 2010 Brian Orelli	Tysabri Updates: All You Have to Do Is Ask Biogen Idec is willing to hook medical doctors up with an automatic monthly update of the number of progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy cases for people taking it and Elan's multiple sclerosis drug, Tysabri.
The Motley Fool August 7, 2009 Brian Orelli	A Billion-Dollar Lovers' Quarrel It looks like the triangle between partners Elan and Biogen Idec and third-wheel Johnson & Johnson over the multiple sclerosis drug Tysabri is going to get settled in court.
The Motley Fool March 15, 2007 Brian Lawler	Dueling Fools: Elan Bear How do you bring an Elan bear out of hibernation? Combine a crushing debt load, a huge cloud of uncertainty over its lead developmental drug program, and the launch of a new product that won't bring in enough revenue to sustain the current valuation, et voila! A bear is born.
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The Motley Fool September 30, 2009 Brian Orelli	Less Is More for Novartis That makes it simple enough.
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The Motley Fool April 24, 2009 Brian Orelli	Great Drugs Not Living Up to Their Potential How well a drug works is not the most important thing to consider when investing. Drugs that work don't always become blockbusters.
The Motley Fool September 14, 2006 Brian Lawler	Close Failure for Genzyme Will Genzyme's Campath get approval? Investors shouldn't hold their breath.
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The Motley Fool August 26, 2008 Brian Lawler	FDA Changes Course for Elan and Biogen Idec The agency takes a different tack with one of the partnership's top drugs.
The Motley Fool March 26, 2009 Brian Orelli	R&D Your Way to Higher Sales Biogen is trying to lower side effects to increase sales.
The Motley Fool February 22, 2011 Brian Orelli	Biogen and Elan's Growing Problem More cases of potentially lethal PML.
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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.
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