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The Motley Fool March 14, 2008 Brian Orelli	Weighing In on Obesity Drugs Could investing in drugmakers that produce weight-loss drugs help fatten your wallet?
The Motley Fool September 20, 2010 Brian Orelli	Potential Blockbuster, No Me-Too About It A diabetes-fighting duo do it right this time.
The Motley Fool January 7, 2011 Brian Orelli	A Biotech Roller Coaster Lexicon is back on the upswing.
The Motley Fool March 17, 2011 Brian Orelli	Taking a Bite Out of Amylin's Obesity Drug Potential Amylin Pharmaceuticals and Takeda announce they were putting a hold on the development of their obesity drug combination pramlintide/metreleptin due to safety issues.
The Motley Fool April 16, 2010 Brian Orelli	It'll Be a Blockbuster! High Fives All Around, Right? Sanofi-aventis releases top-line data for its phase 3 diabetes drug candidate, lixisenatide. The trial was a success, but don't pencil it in as a blockbuster just yet.
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The Motley Fool October 18, 2007 Brian Orelli	Amylin: Waiting on the Future Research and development costs drag down the drug developer's bottom line. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool November 30, 2010 Brian Orelli	Nice Data; Still a Long Wait for the Payoff It may not be enough to move Keryx Biopharmaceuticals' Zerenex to blockbuster status, but the data from a phase 3 trial released today sure look good enough to get it on the market.
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The Motley Fool March 16, 2011 Brian Orelli	Different Name, Same Great Results Incyte and Novartis' ruxolitinib passes another clinical trial.
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The Motley Fool December 7, 2007 Brian Orelli	Amylin's Temporarily Worthless Label Expansion Amylin releases label expansion data that won't be useful for a few years. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool December 14, 2007 Brian Orelli	An Overnight Three-Bagger It's not often you see stocks triple in one day, but that's what Rigel Pharmaceuticals did. You might be surprised, however, as to why. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool February 8, 2011 Esterhuizen & Sellitti	Battle of the Bulge: Biotech Takes on Obesity and Diabetes Will recent advances in pharmaceutical research revolutionize the weight loss industry? It's still early days, but here are some of the stocks to watch.
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The Motley Fool January 31, 2007 Brian Lawler	No Sickness for Amylin Sales of the drugmaker's type-2 diabetes drugs showed solid growth. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool September 20, 2007 Brian Orelli	Teva's Disappointing Phase 2 Results Teva's lupus drug fails to meet its primary endpoint in its phase 2 trial. Investors, take note.
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The Motley Fool January 9, 2008 Brian Orelli	Sirtris' Diabetes Drug: Safe, but Is It Effective? Sirtris has exciting drugs, but is still a pretty risky investment. Investors, this may be one to keep an eye on.
The Motley Fool March 30, 2009 Brian Orelli	Hopes Fall Short for Arena Pharmaceuticals Arena Pharmaceuticals' obesity drug lorcaserin doesn't look like it's doing enough to be a marketing success -- and the results might not even be enough to get it past the Food and Drug Administration.
The Motley Fool November 5, 2008 Brian Orelli	A Byetta Beating The FDA gives Amylin and Alkermes a smack down, but neither company is knocked out yet.
The Motley Fool January 27, 2011 Brian Orelli	Amylin Timeline Shortened -- Maybe Revenue down 6% year over year. Prescriptions of the company's top-selling drug, Byetta, down 5.9% quarter over quarter. Amylin Pharmaceuticals' fourth quarter wasn't pretty.
The Motley Fool October 2, 2007 Brian Orelli	Amylin's Bittersweet FDA News Diabetes drug moves ahead, but not as much as the company wanted. If the FDA rejection was due to safety issues, that wouldn't bode well for Amylin's plans to develop the active ingredient in SYMLIN as a weight-loss drug. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool October 20, 2010 Brian Orelli	There Are No Safe Biotech Investments Amylin Pharmaceuticals and its partners, Eli Lilly and Alkermes, announced yesterday evening that the Food and Drug Administration had asked for more data before approving its once-weekly diabetes drug Bydureon.
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The Motley Fool June 23, 2010 Brian Orelli	Duo of Diabetes Drug Deals Make J&J Better Licensing deals add to Johnson & Johnson's diabetes franchise.
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