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The Motley Fool May 18, 2010 Brian Orelli	Price Inflation in Check? Not in This Industry. Drug prices are on the rise. For now.
The Motley Fool March 28, 2008 Brian Lawler	Is the Dollar Depressing Drug Companies? The falling dollar means different things to big pharma here and in Europe.
The Motley Fool January 8, 2008 Brian Orelli	Brits May Bludgeon Drug Companies The U.K.'s National Health Service delivers a shock to drugmakers; it is considering a 10% drop in the rate that it pays for drugs, to help it reach its goal of a 3% reduction in the nation's overall health-care bill.
The Motley Fool June 2, 2010 Brian Orelli	Take Your Low Margins and Shove 'Em In an effort to help lower its budget problems, Greece told drugmakers it was slashing prices of drugs, take it or leave it. Novo Nordisk chose "leave it."
The Motley Fool July 16, 2010 Brian Orelli	A Positive Sign for Pharma Earnings Season Strong first-half results drove Novartis to increase its sales guidance for the year.
The Motley Fool April 12, 2010 Brian Orelli	Pay for Our Drugs or Else Is the pharmaceutical industry's muscle strong enough? In the U.S., health-care reform will increase coverage, but the reform's ability to keep prices in check is fairly limited.
The Motley Fool January 31, 2011 Brian Orelli	Pharma Goes Back to School But will it produce more drugs? The pharmaceutical industry is headed back to school, with a number of large drugmakers announcing partnerships with universities.
The Motley Fool February 8, 2011 Brian Orelli	A Few Extra Years of Sales? Yes, Please! An EU-Canadian proposal could help drugmakers.
The Motley Fool August 6, 2007 Brian Orelli	Cheap Drugs on the Farm The House approves a prescription-drug import provision. Investors should keep an eye on the status of the bill, because laws that hurt the drugmakers' bottom lines will hurt their stock prices as well.
The Motley Fool February 12, 2009 Brian Orelli	Stimulus Could Be Bitter Pill for Some Investors Health-care shareholders need to watch provisions of the stimulus bill closely.
The Motley Fool July 31, 2009 Brian Orelli	Can Emerging Markets Save Pharma? Probably not until after they emerge.
The Motley Fool March 6, 2009 Brian Orelli	For Drug Companies, R&D Is Spelled C-R-O It seems likely that more and more pharma companies will try to get more bang for their bucks by spending them on research and development done outside the company, outsourcing it to clinical research organizations.
The Motley Fool October 8, 2007 Brian Orelli	New FDA Regulations for Drugmakers To deal with a growing backlog of pending applications, the FDA plans to stop its first-come, first-served system.
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 March 15, 2007 Brian Lawler	It's All Good for Drugmakers With the whole drug industry growing so strongly, those looking for a safe place to park their investing dollars would be smart to take a look at some of the largest generic drugmakers.
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.
The Motley Fool April 21, 2009 Brian Orelli	Reworking the Broken R&D Model When it comes to drug development, it's becoming increasingly clear that competition isn't always the best thing for the industry. Collaborations will help bring drugs to the market more cheaply.
The Motley Fool November 30, 2010 Brian Orelli	A Witty Response to Pharma's R&D Dilemma According to GlaxoSmithKline CEO Andrew Witty, the pharmaceutical industry is a mess. That's the basic gist of his opinion piece in The Economist.
The Motley Fool November 22, 2005 Brian Gorman	Saying No to Drugs Britain's policy of restricting drug access based on cost-benefit analyses should be on the radar screen of pharmaceutical investors.
The Motley Fool March 15, 2004 W.D. Crotty	60 Minutes on Drugs Will the weekly news magazine's prime-time slam rattle the drug stocks?
The Motley Fool August 26, 2010 Brian Orelli	Drug Prices Up, but Don't Read Too Much Into It AARP is out with its annual report on the cost of medications, and it's more of the same: bad news if you're a consumer, but good news if you're invested in drugmakers.
The Motley Fool June 10, 2005 Brian Gorman	PAREXEL's New Risk The contract pharmaceutical research services provider is realigning its business, but even with reduced U.S. operations, it faces increased risk. Investors, beware.
The Motley Fool November 30, 2009 Brian Orelli	The Real Problem With the Public Health-Care Plan The passing of a public plan probably won't affect the companies you invest in all that much, but there's certainly the possibility that a public plan could change into something that could do a lot more damage.
The Motley Fool June 30, 2009 Brian Orelli	A Cocktail for Drug Investors Drug cocktails aren't just for alchemists anymore. In many diseases they've become big business, and pharmaceutical investors would be smart to pay attention.
The Motley Fool February 25, 2010 Brian Orelli	An Untouched Market Waiting to Be Captured Unfilled prescriptions are a potential boon to drug companies.
The Motley Fool August 31, 2009 Brian Orelli	Don't Let Dummy Pills Make You a Dummy Investor Instead of being scared that the sugar pill will perform better than expected, pharma investors should factor it in and require more information before investing in companies with drugs that may be affected by it..
The Motley Fool April 28, 2008 Brian Lawler	Amgen's Anemic Earnings Drug troubles and potential label changes continue to hurt Amgen's earnings.
The Motley Fool May 28, 2008 Brian Lawler	No Barrier to Deals Like This In the latest example of overlap between the pharmaceutical and consumer-health care industries, Barrier Therapeutics announces that it will package one of its lead prescription drugs with a shampoo sold by Procter & Gamble.
The Motley Fool March 18, 2004 Brian Gorman	The Drug Cost Conundrum While drug prices continue to climb, the public and its representatives in government are demanding cheaper pharmaceuticals. The industry is not likely to find cover in Medicare biotechnology. Instead, investors should look for drug makers that are finding ways to operate leaner and meaner.
The Motley Fool October 9, 2008 Brian Orelli	When Science, Marketing, and Investing Collide How a pharmaceutical tries to sell more drugs can provide clues about its management.
The Motley Fool October 27, 2005 Stephen D. Simpson	A Balanced Attack for Glaxo A broad suite of drugs, a huge sales force, and a solid pipeline make GlaxoSmithKline an appealing pharmaceutical company. The problem for investors is that it's all valued into the stock.
The Motley Fool June 6, 2007 Brian Orelli	Cure Your Cancer or Your Money Back Janssen-Cilag, a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, has recently offered to refund the cost of Velcade to the British National Health Service if the patient fails to respond to its multiple myeloma drug. Drug-company investors need not worry about these kinds of deals.
The Motley Fool August 4, 2006 Selena Maranjian	Hooray for Big Pharma! There may actually be an upside to expensive pharmaceuticals. Invest in healthy, growing companies, and while you're forking over $100 for some pills, you may also be receiving $150 in dividends!
The Motley Fool June 15, 2009 Brian Orelli	Strange Bedfellows GlaxoSmithKline is teaming up with none other than its arch-nemesis, generic-drug maker Dr. Reddy's Laboratories, licensing more than 100 of their brands to sell in emerging markets.
The Motley Fool November 26, 2007 Brian Lawler	Glaxo Goes Holiday Shopping The pharmaceutical giant snaps up another acquisition, privately held Reliant Pharmaceuticals, for $1.65 billion in cash, one of the largest pharma deals of the year.
BusinessWeek May 3, 2004 John Carey	Is Reimporting Drugs A Cheap Fix? Not Really Why reimporting drugs from Canada won't work in the long run
The Motley Fool December 21, 2010 Brian Orelli	4 Drugmakers, 5 Deals, Christmas Is Here It looks like there were a lot of people in the business development offices at pharmaceutical companies looking to get their work done before taking off for the holidays. Check out all the deals that were announced yesterday.
The Motley Fool June 29, 2009 Brian Orelli	Your Company Has Been Raided. What Now? Lately, investors have had to worry about pharmaceutical companies keeping their drugs on the market.
The Motley Fool September 16, 2008 Brian Orelli	Is Pharma Still a Safe Investment? People still have to take their medicine. Health care, like food, is something that just isn't very discretionary. And that bodes well for drugmakers. Really.
The Motley Fool December 18, 2009 Brian Orelli	2009: The Year Pharma Learned to Love Itself While anything is possible, don't expect too much more consolidation of major drugmakers in 2010 and beyond.
BusinessWeek October 13, 2003 John Carey	Drug R&D: Must Americans Always Pay? It's time for other countries to share the burden.
The Motley Fool June 6, 2008 Brian Lawler	Sorry, Sanofi: More Bad News The pharmaceutical's top drug prospect is linked to more side effects.
The Motley Fool June 7, 2007 Brian Lawler	Are You Ignoring the Most Exciting Stocks? Never considered drug stocks? You're missing some of the market's best investments.
The Motley Fool September 20, 2007 Brian Orelli	Winners and Losers in Universal Health Care Here's a look at the companies that stand to win or lose if Hillary Rodham Clinton is elected -- and gets her three-pronged health-care reform plan through Congress.
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The Motley Fool November 12, 2009 Brian Orelli	The Life-and-Death Situation That Isn't Branded-drug makers aren't playing fair because they refuse to sell samples to generic drug makers.
The Motley Fool January 18, 2008 Brian Lawler	Wrong-Way Regulators in Europe European Union regulators raided operations of multiple large pharmaceutical companies looking for antitrust and anticompetitive actions in both the branded and generic sectors. They're looking in the wrong places.
The Motley Fool October 28, 2004 Bill Mann	Glaxo's Mild Depression The British drug maker sees increased generic competition for its anti-depressant drugs. Total constant currency sales slipped to $7.7 billion in the current quarter from $8.5 billion last year.
The Motley Fool May 28, 2010 Brian Orelli	Innovators Will Rule the Economic Crisis Roche's CEO says two areas of health care can prosper. I agree.
The Motley Fool June 29, 2009 Brian Orelli	REMS: Not Just for Sleeping Anymore Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategies is saving drugmakers from going into a deep sleep while they wait for Food and Drug Administration approval of their drugs.