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The Motley Fool August 31, 2009 Brian Orelli	Thinning Out Plavix's Monopoly Until now sanofi-aventis' and Bristol-Myers Squibb's Plavix didn't have a monopoly on the blood-thinning market, but it was pretty darn close. But now, another competitor's on the way.
The Motley Fool July 27, 2010 Brian Orelli	Brilinta? I Think Not. AstraZeneca's new blood thinner is far from brilliant.
The Motley Fool July 29, 2010 Brian Orelli	This FDA Panel Isn't Brilliant Why does AstraZeneca's blood thinner Brilinta work better outside the U.S. than here at home? The Food and Drug Administration's advisory panel didn't seem to have a good explanation, but they didn't appear to care much, either.
The Motley Fool January 20, 2011 Brian Orelli	Merck's Bleeding Out Vorapaxar caused it.
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The Motley Fool January 5, 2010 Brian Orelli	Lilly's Effient: Cheap Enough, for Now In order to justify the use of Effient, Eli Lilly is touting a study published in today's Circulation demonstrating the cost effectiveness of Effient over Plavix.
The Motley Fool December 31, 2008 Brian Orelli	An Imminent Drug Approval? Really? Lilly may finally hear about prasugrel.
The Motley Fool February 4, 2009 Brian Orelli	Not If, but When, for Lilly At least Lilly now knows that it's just a matter of time until the anti-clotting agent wins FDA approval.
The Motley Fool June 11, 2010 Brian Orelli	Pfizer and Bristol Coagulate Against Clots Let's see how apixaban does against warfarin before we break out the "blockbuster" stamp.
The Motley Fool October 30, 2009 Brian Orelli	Of One-Time Gains and Pipelines AstraZeneca's earnings report illustrates the nature of polar opposites with one-time gains and new drugs. One is to be largely ignored, while the other will drive the drugmaker's future.
The Motley Fool June 30, 2010 Brian Orelli	When Researchers Attack, Investors Lose Drug investors have to watch out for a lot of things that can change their stock's price: earnings reports, clinical trial results, competitor's results, and FDA decisions.
The Motley Fool January 14, 2011 Brian Orelli	Don't Have a Stroke Over Merck's Heart Drug Welcome to pharma investing.
The Motley Fool October 23, 2009 Brian Orelli	I Don't Need No Massive Merger Plavix's patent expiration is approaching, but Bristol-Myers Squibb is prepared.
Pharmaceutical Executive December 1, 2010 Walter Armstrong	Acute Coronary Syndrome A new class of anticoagulants is competing to dethrone difficult-to-manage warfarin, long the sole option in the prevention of stroke and other bleeding complications in the 2.5 million US patients with atrial fibrillation.
The Motley Fool December 29, 2009 Brian Orelli	Some Brand-Name Patents: Going, Going, Gone in 2010 Generic drug competition is coming for Lipitor, Plavix, and others.
The Motley Fool October 26, 2010 Brian Orelli	Where's the Growth in Big Pharma? The theme for the pharmaceutical industry's 2010 third-quarter earnings reports has been officially set: If you can't get it done through sales, just cut costs.
The Motley Fool February 25, 2008 Brian Lawler	The Most Interesting FDA Review for 2008 Eli Lilly preps for an upcoming FDA review of its top pipeline drug, the blood thinner prasugrel.
The Motley Fool March 15, 2010 Brian Orelli	Warning: Not All Boxed Warnings Are Equal Plavix's is mild in comparison.
The Motley Fool December 12, 2008 Brian Orelli	A Long-Term Play for Your Port Long-term prospects look better than the near term ones for Eli Lilly and its investors.
The Motley Fool August 30, 2010 Brian Orelli	Pipeline Checkup: Merck Has Potential The Schering-Plough acquisition has seemed to help.
The Motley Fool May 21, 2010 Brian Orelli	And You Thought Biotech Was High-Risk, High-Reward Large clinical trials make cardiovascular drugs risky, but the rewards are there, too.
The Motley Fool October 22, 2007 Brian Lawler	Modest Numbers From Eli Lilly Its sales were up for the quarter, but a new drug might be the best indicator of its prospects. Lilly's pipeline will dictate its near-term future.
BusinessWeek October 17, 2005 Amy Barrett	Prescription For Upheaval How the Medicare drug program is tightening the screws on Big Pharma.
The Motley Fool December 19, 2008 Brian Orelli	Eli Lilly's Good News Misses the Mark EU approval of its blood thinner is nice, but U.S. approval is what will really matter.
The Motley Fool June 25, 2008 Brian Lawler	Why the Lilly Delay, FDA? A government review of the company's top drug candidate gets pushed back.
The Motley Fool September 30, 2010 Brian Orelli	Avoid This Multibillion-Dollar Market It's just too crowded, but there's no doubt that psychiatric drugs are big business for some drugmakers.
The Motley Fool November 18, 2009 Brian Orelli	Your Heart or Your Stomach? It must be disappointing to know that a label change on another drug -- one that isn't even your competition -- is going to hurt sales, but that's the position that Procter & Gamble and AstraZeneca find themselves in.
The Motley Fool July 23, 2009 Brian Orelli	The Slowly Wilting Lilly Nothing can save this drug company.
The Motley Fool August 31, 2010 Brian Orelli	A Mostly Meaningless FDA Rejection The Food and Drug Administration sends AstraZeneca back to the drawing board for the second time when it rejected motavizumab, the drugmaker's newest treatment for respiratory syncytial virus.
The Motley Fool November 20, 2008 Brian Orelli	Double Trouble for AstraZeneca A double dose of bad news for AstraZeneca. Current revenue is vanishing, and potential revenue is failing to materialize.
The Motley Fool January 29, 2010 Brian Orelli	All Grown Up, With Cash to Burn Bristol-Myers is all drugs, all the time.
The Motley Fool October 14, 2010 Sean Williams	Should You Let AstraZeneca Go? Multiple drug patent expirations await. It's time to run away.
BusinessWeek June 2, 2011 Kresge & Connolly	A New Pricing Game for Drugmakers in Europe Germany's new rules tying pharmaceutical prices to greater efficacy is worrying companies.
The Motley Fool November 21, 2008 Brian Orelli	The Comeback of the Century? AstraZeneca is trying to revive Iressa.
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BusinessWeek December 29, 2010 Kelley & Cortez	AstraZeneca's Risky Bet on Drug Discovery Instead of acquisitions and diversification, AstraZeneca is determined to find new pills in its own labs.
The Motley Fool March 25, 2011 Brian Orelli	Pfile Pfizer Under "Potential" Researchers reported promising finding from a clinical trial of Pfizer's new drug, CP-870,893, in pancreatic cancer patients in the most recent issue of the journal Science.
The Motley Fool February 12, 2009 Brian Orelli	Patent Cliff? Bring It On Sanofi-aventis isn't interested in doing a large deal.
The Motley Fool February 17, 2010 Brian Orelli	$1.24 Billion Deal. Shares Fall 9%. That Makes Sense. Rigel Pharmaceuticals signed up AstraZeneca to take over development of its phase 2 rheumatoid arthritis drug, R788, with more than $1.24 billion in potential payments, and the shares fell more than 9%.
The Motley Fool March 31, 2009 Brian Orelli	Pharma's Refreshing Bad News Schering-Plough and Eli Lilly both present data at scientific meetings over the weekend about drugs that failed their clinical trials, but it's not bad news.
The Motley Fool January 28, 2011 Brian Orelli	Looking Ahead at Bristol-Myers Product approvals now will help with the upcoming patent cliff.
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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 February 26, 2010 Brian Orelli	Drug Company Cost Cuts: Careful What You Wish For Research and development is the lifeblood of future revenue.
The Motley Fool April 20, 2009 Brian Orelli	A Cheer and a Boo for Eli Lilly Cost-cutting is nice, but it doesn't slow down the drive toward the patent cliff. Lilly needs to be on the lookout for other partnerships to fill in the upcoming revenue holes.
The Motley Fool April 27, 2006 Stephen D. Simpson	A Sluggish Bristol-Myers Squibb Generic erosion is going to chew away revenue and profits. Investors, at today's prices, there are just too many other better ideas to go after.
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The Motley Fool May 29, 2009 Brian Orelli	Delayed, Reason Unknown As long as Bayer and Johnson & Johnson can answer the FDA's questions relatively quickly, it shouldn't affect the companies too much.