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The Motley Fool July 27, 2010 Brian Orelli	Branded? Generic? They're Both Doing Great! Teva Pharmaceuticals registers strong growth on both fronts.
The Motley Fool May 26, 2010 Brian Orelli	Blockbuster Drugs Aimed at Busting MS Multiple sclerosis is a large market with more entrants coming.
The Motley Fool September 22, 2009 Robert Steyer	Will Teva Be Forced to Take Its Own Medicine? Teva's biggest source of revenue and profit, the multiple sclerosis drug Copaxone, is facing a patent challenge.
The Motley Fool April 13, 2010 Brian Orelli	Teva Gets Less Generic The generic-drug maker makes a major push into branded-drug development.
The Motley Fool May 28, 2008 Brian Lawler	A Strange Novartis MS Drug Story Novartis gets approval for a drug with an interesting history.
The Motley Fool October 27, 2010 Brian Orelli	Biogen Idec's Fight-Back Plan Novartis' Gilenya is coming, but Biogen has a backup plan.
The Motley Fool July 21, 2010 Brian Orelli	Biogen Looks Good Now, but What About Tomorrow? Biogen Idec saw revenue increase 11% and adjusted earnings per share jump almost 75%, which is all well and good, but the longer-term prospects for the company aren't nearly as impressive.
The Motley Fool February 10, 2010 Brian Orelli	Icahn's Smiling -- Should We Be? Biogen Idec's fourth quarter results must have made Carl Icahn smile. But the guidance for next year gives pause.
The Motley Fool April 11, 2008 Brian Orelli	Teva Tugs at Both Ends of the MS String Teva tries to get multiple sclerosis patients to switch to its drug.
The Motley Fool March 3, 2011 Brian Orelli	3 Cheers for an FDA Rejection German drugmaker Merck said that the Food and Drug Administration had turned down its multiple sclerosis drug cladribine. The pill would have competed with Novartis' Gilenya, which gained FDA approval last year.
The Motley Fool April 12, 2011 Brian Orelli	How Significant Is 'Statistically Significant' for Biogen? Biogen could have a third multiple sclerosis blockbuster on its hands.
The Motley Fool February 18, 2009 Brian Orelli	Teva Raises the Barr Generic drugs are likely to be a major solution that governments use to tackle the problem of rising health-care costs, and the new, larger Teva looks well-poised to grab that growth as it happens.
The Motley Fool September 30, 2009 Brian Orelli	Less Is More for Novartis That makes it simple enough.
The Motley Fool April 29, 2011 Brian Orelli	Oral Multiple Sclerosis Drugs Heat Up Watch out Novartis and Gilenya.
The Motley Fool February 2, 2011 Brian Orelli	A Deeper Dive Into Biogen's Revenue Growth On the surface, it looks like Biogen Idec is handling the entrance of Novartis' new oral multiple sclerosis drug, Gilenya, quite well. The real picture is a little bleaker.
The Motley Fool January 12, 2010 Brian Orelli	Tysabri: It's a Blockbuster! Yawn. So What? Is it really a big deal that Tysabri finally achieved blockbuster status?
The Motley Fool October 20, 2009 Brian Orelli	All Tysabri, All the Time Biogen needs to focus on its most potential-packed drug.
The Motley Fool May 12, 2011 Brian Orelli	Teva's Mixed Bag Diversification sure helps.
The Motley Fool January 21, 2011 Brian Orelli	Trouble in Tysabri Land? Patient additions for a drug from Biogen Idec and Elan are slowing down.
The Motley Fool October 22, 2008 Brian Orelli	Biogen Has Growth in all the Wrong Places Biogen Idec saw substantial growth in the third quarter, but apparently it's coming from all the wrong places.
The Motley Fool August 26, 2008 Brian Lawler	FDA Changes Course for Elan and Biogen Idec The agency takes a different tack with one of the partnership's top drugs.
The Motley Fool July 23, 2008 Brian Lawler	No Picking at Biogen At a time in which all of its top drugs experienced at least double-digit percentage sales growth, there aren't many issues to poke at with Biogen Idec's just-released second-quarter financial results.
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The Motley Fool April 17, 2009 Brian Orelli	When Revenue Trumps Earnings Biogen grows earnings, but what does that say about the future?
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The Motley Fool October 16, 2007 Brian Lawler	Questions Surround a Biogen Deal Rumors swirl around Biogen after it publicly announces that it's for sale. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool July 8, 2008 Brian Orelli	Not Teva's Forte Teva Pharmaceutical's Copaxone for multiple sclerosis fails to show a benefit at double strength. Investors take note.
The Motley Fool April 24, 2009 Brian Orelli	Great Drugs Not Living Up to Their Potential How well a drug works is not the most important thing to consider when investing. Drugs that work don't always become blockbusters.
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The Motley Fool August 1, 2011 Brian Orelli	Bravo? Not Really. Teva's oral multiple sclerosis drug, laquinimod, fails to impress.
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The Motley Fool May 3, 2011 Brian Orelli	Teva's Branded-Drug Binge For a company that's a generic-drug maker, Teva Pharmaceuticals sure does like its branded drugs. Despite the warts the company is ponying up $6.2 billion to buy Cephalon.
The Motley Fool July 14, 2008 Brian Orelli	Teva Gets a Taste of Its Own Medicine Momenta Pharmaceuticals and Novartis are challenging the patents on Teva Pharmaceutical's blockbuster multiple sclerosis drug Copaxone.
The Motley Fool July 2, 2009 Brian Orelli	Deal Struck, Shares Stuck Acorda Therapeutics secured a decent upfront payment to license the ex-U.S. rights to its multiple sclerosis drug, Fampridine-SR, from the perfect partner. Unfortunately, investors still smacked the stock down nearly 15% yesterday.
The Motley Fool September 9, 2010 Jim Mueller	Today's Buy Opportunity: Teva Pharmaceutical Take advantage of this growing generic-drug maker.
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The Motley Fool September 23, 2010 Brian Orelli	A Blockbuster in Due Time Novartis' new multiple sclerosis drug, Gilenya, isn't king yet.
The Motley Fool February 17, 2010 Brian Orelli	This Is Not Your Generic Cash Production Teva's generating cash and knows how to use it.
The Motley Fool October 27, 2011 Brian Orelli	DEFINE First, CONFIRM Second, See Shares Rise 60% Third Biogen CONFIRMs it has a new blockbuster drug and shares jump.
The Motley Fool May 5, 2010 Brian Orelli	Teva's Double-Edged Sword Nice quarter, but where will future growth come from?
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The Motley Fool December 9, 2010 Brian Orelli	Here Comes Another Oral MS Drug Good for Teva, bad for the rest.
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