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The Motley Fool June 15, 2007 Brian Lawler	Neurocrine Moves Ahead Neurocrine resubmits a marketing application for its lead drug. Investors, take note.
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The Motley Fool January 25, 2007 Brian Lawler	Renovis Tries to Right Itself Renovis takes some steps to try and recover after its lead drug fails in clinical testing. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool May 1, 2007 Brian Lawler	Northfield Delays the Inevitable Northfield announces a delay in the analysis of a clinical trial for its drug candidate. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool May 24, 2007 Brian Lawler	Learn From Northfield's Bloody Results Northfield announces clinical trial results that investors can learn from. As long as they at least give the appearance of trying to advance their compounds forward, development-stage drugmakers can go on for years always getting investor funding from somewhere.
The Motley Fool September 24, 2007 Brian Lawler	Encysive Hears the Voice of Reason To please the FDA, Encysive Pharmaceuticals announces it is planning an additional phase 3 trial to try and bring its lead drug, Thelin, to market in the United States.
The Motley Fool October 15, 2007 Brian Lawler	A Surprising Decision for Telik It still doesn't look like the pharma's lead drug is helping anyone get better. Investors, take note.
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The Motley Fool July 18, 2007 Brian Lawler	More Misery for Neurochem It's hard to find another drug developer that has mishandled its correspondence with investors about its drug candidates as badly as Neurochem has over the past year.
The Motley Fool December 31, 2010 Brian Orelli	2010 FDA Approvals and a Look Ahead Recent history can help us handicap FDA decisions.
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BusinessWeek June 12, 2006 Catherine Arnst	Going From The Lab To Limbo The FDA has been delaying decisions on applications, and drugmakers are fuming.
The Motley Fool August 4, 2005 Charly Travers	This One's a Winner Encysive awaits FDA approval, and all signs are positive. Biotech investors, take note.
The Motley Fool August 17, 2007 Brian Orelli	Fewer Drug Approvals? Buy! Stricter standards at the FDA could create a buying opportunity. Drug approvals are down one third this year, creating a lot of value in pharmaceutical and biotech companies. Just choose your medicines carefully.
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The Motley Fool April 2, 2008 Brian Lawler	Following the Drugmaker Formerly Known as Neurochem Neurochem would have been set to hear FDA news on its lead drug candidate Kiacta today, if they had not pulled their marketing application earlier this month.
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The Motley Fool January 12, 2007 Brian Lawler	What's Next for Northfield Labs? When Northfield released results from its phase 3 trial for PolyHeme, its shares fell almost 60% in one day. But Northfield again said it's not giving up on PolyHeme and would eventually apply to the FDA to market the drug.
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