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The Motley Fool October 21, 2005 Brian Gorman	Covance Keeps Delivering Investors seemed to fret over the drug-development services company's full-year earnings forecast, but the facts suggest that Covance remains a solid long-term bet.
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The Motley Fool November 30, 2007 Brian Orelli	Clinical Trial Failures Don't Bother These Companies Contract research organizations, outsourcing companies hired by pharmaceutical and biotech companies to run pre-clinical tests and clinical trials for them, succeed even when drugs fail, and more work may be coming their way.
The Motley Fool January 13, 2011 Brian Orelli	This Trendy Pharma Is Making a Stylish Move Merck signs up a CRO to help with biosimilars.
The Motley Fool October 1, 2008 Brian Orelli	WuXi and Covance Call It Quits WuXi PharmaTech and Covance broke up yesterday - just three months after announcing they'd form an alliance to perform pre-clinical research for drug developers looking for research and development on the cheap.
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The Motley Fool April 28, 2006 Brian Gorman	Speed Bumps at Covance Although some problems have cropped up, this drug-research services company is still a solid performer overall. Investors, take note.
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The Motley Fool August 25, 2006 Brian Gorman	California's Drug Demands As the pressure grows on drugmakers from legislation, growth and consolidation in the outsourcing business seem likely.
Chemistry World November 12, 2014 Phillip Broadwith	Labcorp to buy Covance and enter contract research Medical diagnostics specialist Labcorp has agreed to buy contract research organization Covance for around $6 billion.
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The Motley Fool December 27, 2007 Brian Orelli	Drugmaker Growth: The China Connection Just like other industries, the pharmaceutical industry has realized that China is a good place to find cheap labor. While reluctant to set up FDA-regulated manufacturing plants in China, other stages of drug development can be done there.
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The Motley Fool May 4, 2005 Brian Gorman	Relaxing on the River Charles River Laboratories' full suite of services looks like a winning concept.
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The Motley Fool November 12, 2009 Brian Orelli	How Do You Say 'Drug Development' in Mandarin? Drug giant Novartis announces that it's heading to China in a big way.
The Motley Fool September 23, 2011 Michael Olsen	1 Special Stock Pick From an Outside View Don't fall prey to market myopia. We expect contract researchers -- like Charles River, Icon, and Pharmaceutical Product Development -- to benefit as pharmaceutical companies adopt an increasingly cost-conscious posture.
The Motley Fool July 29, 2005 Stephen Ellis	eResearch Misses a Beat Is eResearch Technology a dirt-cheap company or value trap? There are good reasons to suggest that the provider of ECG collection and interpretation services to the pharmaceutical industry does not deserve the shellacking that it has been receiving over the past year.
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The Motley Fool June 7, 2005 Brian Gorman	Covance Under Fire The contract research company could suffer at the hands of the animal-rights group PETA. The value of a company's public image is hard to quantify. For investors, this is definitely a case worth watching.
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