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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.
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The Motley Fool November 22, 2010 Brian Orelli	Let's Call It a Partial Victory Merck's Vytorin works better than a placebo. Unfortunately, it may be too little and too late to do anything about the sales cut that Vytorin has taken over the past few years.
The Motley Fool March 30, 2009 Brian Orelli	To the Moon, Crestor? A few months ago, AstraZeneca released initial data showing how its cholesterol-lowering drug, Crestor, reduced the risk of heart attacks, strokes, and other heart-related issues by 44% in patients. Now it's back with more.
The Motley Fool May 20, 2011 Brian Orelli	Abbott Hits a Triple Not a home run, but Trilipix will likely stay on the market.
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 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 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 12, 2007 Brian Orelli	Congress Calls Out Merck and Schering-Plough The House of Representatives wants to know what's taking these pharmaceutical companies so long to release trial data from their ENHANCE clinical trial.
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 May 27, 2011 Brian Orelli	AIM-HIGH? These Drugmakers Better Duck. A government study on cholesterol drugs hurts Abbott and Merck.
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 April 29, 2008 Brian Orelli	Merck's Recovery Flushed Down Merck's best hope at recovery fails approval by the FDA.
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 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 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 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 July 22, 2008 Brian Orelli	Drug Duo SEAS Disappointment -- Again After numerous disappointments this year, Merck and Schering-Plough continue their string of bad luck.
The Motley Fool May 14, 2008 Brian Orelli	Abbott Knocks Down Boston Scientific Abbott Labs proves its drug-eluting device works better than its competitors as it presented more data from its ongoing Spirit III trial.
The Motley Fool April 17, 2008 Brian Orelli	Abbott's Not Ailing Abbott produces double-digit growth; investors yawn.
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 September 2, 2008 Brian Orelli	Cardiologists Hate Vytorin Cardiologists seem cynical about the full presentation of Merck's and Schering-Plough's SEAS data at the European Society of Cardiology.
The Motley Fool May 22, 2008 Brian Orelli	Merck Can't Achieve Anything The pharmaceutical cancels a troubled clinical trial.
The Motley Fool April 2, 2008 Brian Lawler	Bad Timing for AstraZeneca's Good Data AstraZeneca quietly reports a successful clinical study for its cholesterol-lowering lead drug.
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 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 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 January 17, 2008 Michael P. Cecil	2 Sources of Trouble for Vytorin You know that a drug study has gone very, very bad when you can't find out its results without a congressional inquiry.
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.
The Motley Fool December 4, 2008 Brian Orelli	Pfizer Blows Statin Smoke Pfizer presents some mildly persuasive numbers to try to win back customers for Lipitor.
The Motley Fool November 18, 2009 Brian Orelli	Drug Lowers Cholesterol; Stock Follows ISIS has a hard time at American Heart Association despite good efficacy data.
The Motley Fool April 8, 2005 Stephen D. Simpson	Abbott Hopes to Maxx Out Abbott announced FDA approval to begin a pivotal trial for its drug-eluting stent. Will this be too little too late for shareholders, or a true dark horse?
BusinessWeek July 21, 2003 Amy Barrett	A Bare-Knuckle Battle over Cholesterol Drugs If AstraZeneca's Crestor is approved, rivals' stepped-up pitches will focus on safety
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 February 20, 2008 Brian Orelli	Abbott's Copycat Combinations Abbott's latest FDA approval is for Simcor, a combination of Niaspan -- Abbott's slow-release niacin -- and the active component of Merck's Zocor, which isn't patent-protected anymore. Investors take note.
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 December 30, 2003 Arash Mostaghimi	Turning Cholesterol Into Cash With 62 million Americans suffering from heart disease, it's a huge target for major drug makers.
The Motley Fool March 29, 2007 Michael P. Cecil	Stents on Trial New study results could affect stent sales -- at least in the short term.
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 December 16, 2009 Brian Orelli	Let's Hand Out Crestor Like Candy That sure would increase sales.
Pharmaceutical Executive February 1, 2009 Walter Armstrong	Brand of the Year: Crestor For aiming to be a game-changer in cardiovascular disease, we recognize comeback kid Crestor as the year's No. 1. Plus three fine finalists.
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 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 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 March 14, 2006 Brian Gorman	AstraZeneca's Heartening News A new study shows cholesterol drug Crestor's further potential. Will it help sales?
BusinessWeek November 22, 2004 Barrett & Carey	Wondering About A Wonder Drug While the benefits of statins, sold under names such as Lipitor and Zocor, are well established, some doctors argue that their side effects have not received adequate scrutiny.
The Motley Fool March 9, 2009 Brian Orelli	Merck-Schering Trumps Pfizer-Wyeth The new Merck deal looks a lot better than a combined Pfizer plus Wyeth.
The Motley Fool August 5, 2010 Brian Orelli	Blockbuster Efficacy! Not-So-Blockbuster Safety! Isis and Genzyme's wonder drug has not-so-wonderful side effects. Still.
The Motley Fool April 18, 2011 Brian Orelli	Up 95%! No Anchor Holding Amarin Down The second phase 3 trial of AMR101 deemed a success.
The Motley Fool August 29, 2008 Brian Orelli	Stent Makers Getting Desperate Johnson & Johnson, the first company to bring a drug-eluting stent to the U.S. market, seems like it might be getting a little desperate, as competition increases.