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The Motley Fool May 27, 2011 Brian Orelli	AIM-HIGH? These Drugmakers Better Duck. A government study on cholesterol drugs hurts Abbott and Merck.
The Motley Fool December 1, 2009 Robert Steyer	Merck Makes a Mark on Good Cholesterol Can't profit from fighting bad lipoproteins? Start boosting the good ones.
The Motley Fool October 5, 2007 Brian Orelli	Merck's Next Blockbuster? Merck's cholesterol drug comes back from phase 2 testing with no side effects. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool August 30, 2007 Brian Orelli	Merck Tries to Stop the Flushing The FDA will review the pharma's new cholesterol drug. The biggest worry with getting CORDAPTIVE approved is probably not with its effectiveness, but with safety. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool April 17, 2008 Brian Orelli	Abbott's Not Ailing Abbott produces double-digit growth; investors yawn.
The Motley Fool April 29, 2008 Brian Orelli	Merck's Recovery Flushed Down Merck's best hope at recovery fails approval by the FDA.
The Motley Fool September 24, 2010 Brian Orelli	Prepare for This $12 Billion Whoosh Pfizer's Lipitor is the top-selling cholesterol drug -- in fact, it's the top selling drug period -- but it'll start to see generic competition in a little over a year.
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 November 10, 2008 Brian Orelli	Drug Fuels an Idling Rocket Ship AstraZeneca needs another FDA approval to really take advantage of its cholesterol drug's success.
The Motley Fool November 16, 2009 Brian Orelli	Abbott Puts a Nail in Merck's Coffin There's a clear winner from the American Heart Association conference.
The Motley Fool December 23, 2009 Brian Orelli	Cancer Isn't Merck's Biggest Problem There's still hope for Merck's Vytorin, but investors will have to wait.
The Motley Fool May 22, 2008 Brian Orelli	Merck Can't Achieve Anything The pharmaceutical cancels a troubled clinical trial.
The Motley Fool June 23, 2008 Brian Orelli	FDA Sets a Higher Standard for Merck Merck finally comes clean on what the FDA wants before the drug formally known as Cordaptive (MK-0524A) can be approved. From the looks of it, it's going to be a long wait for Merck.
Managed Care December 2007 Ed Silverman	Drugs to Plan For in 2008 There are not many traditional medications in the pipeline, and those that are in development probably won't make waves.
The Motley Fool December 4, 2006 Michael P. Cecil	Pfizer's Cholesterol-Drug Hopes Crumble In surprising and disappointing news, the pharma's promising new drug fails clinical trials. With Pfizer shares declining because of the bad news, is now a good time to buy?
BusinessWeek March 6, 2006 Amy Barrett	Merck: Out Of The Ivory Tower Merck's pragmatic strategy includes tweaking the vitamin niacin to make it a blockbuster.
The Motley Fool December 14, 2007 Brian Orelli	Panel Kills Merck's Hope of OTC Status An FDA advisory panel isn't convinced that Merck's cholesterol-lowering drug MEVACOR deserves OTC status.
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 October 23, 2007 Brian Orelli	Old Merck on New Drugs It looks like the old Merck is back, with new drugs driving double-digit sales growth in the third-quarter.
The Motley Fool April 12, 2004 Brian Gorman	Abbott Not Rewarded Abbott Laboratories first-quarter earnings news was positive, but investors didn't react enthusiastically.
The Motley Fool July 10, 2009 Brian Orelli	Is the News Good or Bad? Who Cares! Sell! A trial comparing Merck's and Schering-Plough's cholesterol drug Zetia to Abbott Labs' Niaspan was ended early, causing a sell-off of Merck stock.
The Motley Fool March 31, 2008 Brian Orelli	No Blood-Pumping Love for Merck and Schering From the reports coming out of the American College of Cardiology meeting, it looks like the drugmakers Merck and Schering-Plough took a beating.
The Motley Fool June 3, 2011 Brian Orelli	FDA Bullies Obesity Drugmakers It's been clear for some time that the Food and Drug Administration isn't particularly fond of obesity drugs. Now it's just being a bully.
The Motley Fool October 11, 2010 Brian Orelli	What Meridia's Demise Means for Arena, VIVUS, and Orexigen Safety first ... and second ... and third...
The Motley Fool August 3, 2007 Brian Orelli	Another Headache for Pozen Investors Drugmaker Pozen might have to run one more trial for the FDA for its migraine drug.
The Motley Fool June 30, 2008 Brian Orelli	A Drug to End Merck's Headache? Merck presents promising data for its phase 3 migraine drug.
BusinessWeek July 26, 2004 Amy Barrett	Hooked On The Cash From Cholesterol Cholesterol-lowering drugs are massive moneyspinners. But can big pharmaceutical companies sidestep expiring patents?
The Motley Fool November 23, 2009 Brian Orelli	The Side Effect of Developing Obesity Drugs The FDA is fickle when it comes to weight-loss drugs.
Chemistry World January 14, 2013 Andrew Turley	Laropiprant recalled Merck & Co has said it is recalling Tredaptive cholesterol tablets in response to trial results that raised safety concerns and the recommendations of a European Medicines Agency safety panel.
The Motley Fool January 15, 2008 Brian Orelli	No Enhance-ment From Zetia Merck and Schering report bad news, but how much will it affect sales? Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool February 4, 2009 Brian Orelli	The Tale of 2 Drugmakers Merck and Schering-Plough typically release earnings on the same day because they share sales of cholesterol drugs Vytorin and Zetia, but the drugmakers are far from the same.
The Motley Fool October 31, 2011 Brian Orelli	When Getting Beat Down Is No Big Deal Merck is getting smacked down by Vertex Pharmaceuticals in the hepatitis C market, but it has the bulk to take a beating.
The Motley Fool July 19, 2010 Brian Orelli	Abbott Labs Loves Merck More Than Gilead Its HIV trial seems to suggest so.
The Motley Fool October 23, 2006 Brian Lawler	Merck Mints Money The pharmaceutical hangs on, despite ongoing Vioxx woes. Conservative investors may do best to stay away from Merck until a lower share-price opportunity presents itself, now that shares are no longer sporting such a large Vioxx discount.
The Motley Fool December 1, 2009 Brian Orelli	Abbott Makes All the Right Moves Hot off its cholesterol win over Merck, Abbott Labs is playing it safe with another cholesterol drug, TriCor.
The Motley Fool November 3, 2009 Brian Orelli	A Little Distracted, Are You, Merck? The FDA rejects its latest application.
The Motley Fool March 27, 2008 Brian Orelli	I Heart the ACC What can investors expect from this weekend's blood-pumping American College of Cardiology scientific meeting?
The Motley Fool May 18, 2009 Brian Orelli	Free Drugs! Pfizer's giving over 70 drugs away -- to people who have lost their jobs and health insurance recently and can show financial hardship.
The Motley Fool January 9, 2009 Brian Orelli	Thanks for Nothing, FDA The Food and Drug Administration says there's still enough evidence that Merck and Schering-Plough's Vytorin works to warrant keeping patients on the drug.
The Motley Fool September 7, 2007 Brian Orelli	Merck Says No to This Protein An FDA advisory panel recommends unanimous approval of a new HIV drug from Merck. The new class of HIV medications fight the virus by blocking one key protein from entering cells.
The Motley Fool April 2, 2008 Michael P. Cecil	Irrational Exuberance for Vytorin and Zetia? Drugmakers Merck and Schering-Plough certainly hoped data from the Enhance study would enhance the value and status of their blockbuster cholesterol-fighting drugs Zetia and Vytorin -- but its results did quite the opposite.
The Motley Fool April 28, 2008 Brian Orelli	FDA Moves Isis' Finish Line The FDA tells drugmaker Isis it must complete cancer tests before submitting its marketing application.
BusinessWeek November 24, 2010 Tom Randall	Merck May Have a Cholesterol Winner Merck told doctors at the American Heart Assn. annual meeting that new data showed its drug anacetrapib had reduced bad cholesterol by 40 percent while raising good cholesterol by an unprecedented 138 percent.
The Motley Fool November 15, 2011 Brian Orelli	Good Data, Big Drug Market, but Still Risky Eli Lilly's evacetrapib is behind Roche and Merck.
The Motley Fool September 7, 2007 Brian Orelli	Fighting the Generics Next Door Pfizer tries to stop patients from switching from it's patented Lipitor to generic Zocor by doing an observational study of patients on both medications.
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 November 27, 2007 Brian Orelli	Second Chance for Merck's MEVACOR Merck licenses the rights to an over-the-counter version of its cholesterol-lowering drug MEVACOR to GlaxoSmithKline, but the deal is far from done. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool February 11, 2010 Brian Orelli	A Wonder Drug With Not-So-Wonderful Side Effects Wonder drug or not, Isis Pharmaceuticals and Genzyme's cholesterol drug mipomersen's sales will be limited by side effects.
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