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The Motley Fool April 2, 2007 Brian Lawler	Progenics Submits for Its Future Progenics submits a New Drug Application for its lead compound. Whether the sales and royalty revenue that methylnaltrexone can bring in will be enough to support its current valuation is still in doubt.
The Motley Fool March 9, 2007 Brian Lawler	Progenics Gets Backed Up Progenics Pharmaceutics and drugmaker giant Wyeth announced a delay in one of their methylnaltrexone programs. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool April 25, 2008 Brian Orelli	Progenics' Double Dose of Good News Its lead drug gets FDA approval and a positive EU recommendation.
The Motley Fool March 13, 2008 Brian Orelli	Progenics Down but Not Out Progenics Pharmaceuticals' drug to help patients after abdominal surgery fails in its phase 3 trial. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool October 15, 2009 Brian Orelli	This Partnership Will Go No Further Wyeth and Progenics call it quits.
The Motley Fool August 29, 2007 Brian Lawler	Adolor Stays in the Ring Adolor takes another run at getting FDA approval for its lead drug. Shares of the biotech firm are up on news the FDA had accepted for review additional information about its ileus medication, Entereg.
The Motley Fool February 16, 2010 Brian Orelli	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 September 5, 2006 Brian Lawler	Adolor: Positive Results, Negative Reaction The market seems confused by good results from Adolor's latest clinical trial. Investors willing to take a gamble on Adolor at this price may be in for huge rewards if the company and Glaxo can convince the FDA of Entereg's viability.
The Motley Fool December 31, 2010 Brian Orelli	2010 FDA Approvals and a Look Ahead Recent history can help us handicap FDA decisions.
The Motley Fool September 13, 2007 Brian Orelli	Progenics Progresses Progenics and partner Wyeth announce plans to start three new clinical trials on their constipation-relieving drug. The patient treatment time for the trials is relatively short, so investors won't have to wait too long to see how the drug performs.
The Motley Fool November 30, 2007 Brian Lawler	FDA Throws Adolor a Bone Pharmaceutical company Adolor gets an advisory panel hearing on its lead drug. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool April 29, 2008 Brian Orelli	Will These Drugs Get FDA Approval? Discovery Laboratories and Adolor are waiting FDA decisions on their drugs next month.
The Motley Fool January 24, 2008 Brian Lawler	Adolor Advisory Panel Aftermath An FDA advisory panel votes favorably on Adolor's lead drug.
The Motley Fool December 31, 2007 Brian Lawler	The Anatomy Of An Approved Drug An independent audit by the FDA provides a useful summary of the characteristics of drugs approved by the agency.
The Motley Fool April 11, 2007 Brian Lawler	Adolor: Down and Out? The drug developer announces dour clinical trial results. Shares of Adolor crashed nearly 60% on the news.
The Motley Fool September 22, 2009 Brian Orelli	Nektar Tastes Sweet Nektar is getting an up-front payment of $125 million and AstraZeneca is taking over development of two of its compounds.
The Motley Fool September 14, 2007 Brian Lawler	FDA Keeps Adolor Waiting Adolor and partner GlaxoSmithKline continue playing the FDA waiting game, as the agency has still not decided whether to allow clinical trials of Adolor's top drug to continue.
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The Motley Fool July 30, 2010 Brian Orelli	A Faster Pathway to Drug Approvals A thinktank called the Pacific Research Institute has proposed letting drugs approved by the European Medicines Authority onto the market in the U.S. before the Food and Drug Administration has approved the drugs.
The Motley Fool January 28, 2011 Brian Orelli	Value Investing, Biotech Style Biotech investors should regard every binary event as a varying degree of confidence in a positive or negative result.
The Motley Fool January 20, 2004 David Nierengarten	Adolor's Knocked-Out Drug The biotech's stock is pummeled after mixed-up trial results.
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The Motley Fool January 22, 2008 Brian Lawler	Adolor Under the FDA's Spotlight The FDA releases its documents on Adolor's lead drug, with surprising good news in advance of an advisory panel discussion. Investors, take note.
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The Motley Fool April 23, 2008 Brian Orelli	Wyeth Recovers From Its Heartburn Wyeth deals with generic competition for one of its biggest drugs.
The Motley Fool March 15, 2007 Brian Lawler	Adolor's New Plan Adolor updates investors on its plans for its lead drug program.
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The Motley Fool July 10, 2007 Brian Lawler	Adolor Tries Again Adolor continues work on its second drug candidate. Investors will have to wait until early 2008 for some data to sink their teeth into.
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The Motley Fool August 28, 2006 Brian Lawler	The Commandments of Biotech Investing Since long-term successful biotech investing requires accurate risk assessment, you must be aware of the risk you're taking on. Just as with any prospective investment, if you diversify your biotech holdings, you can somewhat mitigate these various risks.
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