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The Motley Fool April 16, 2010 Brian Orelli	It'll Be a Blockbuster! High Fives All Around, Right? Sanofi-aventis releases top-line data for its phase 3 diabetes drug candidate, lixisenatide. The trial was a success, but don't pencil it in as a blockbuster just yet.
The Motley Fool October 2, 2009 Brian Orelli	Warning! Potential Blockbuster Ahead It's a little early to call it, but it looks like Bristol-Myers Squibb and AstraZeneca have a potential blockbuster on their hands with their new diabetes drug.
The Motley Fool June 23, 2010 Brian Orelli	Duo of Diabetes Drug Deals Make J&J Better Licensing deals add to Johnson & Johnson's diabetes franchise.
The Motley Fool January 28, 2010 Brian Orelli	How to Make a Billion Bucks in Biotech Drug companies and investors alike have to balance the risk and reward.
The Motley Fool September 20, 2010 Brian Orelli	Potential Blockbuster, No Me-Too About It A diabetes-fighting duo do it right this time.
The Motley Fool June 24, 2008 Brian Orelli	A Diabetes Drug Delivery Deal Several pharmaceutical companies compete to deliver a diabetes medication that can be taken orally or once-weekly.
The Motley Fool July 24, 2007 Brian Orelli	Is Amylin a Two-Hit Wonder? Two drugs, no profitability, but Amylin shares go up on future hopes after the pharmaceutical company reports.
The Motley Fool October 31, 2007 Brian Lawler	Nastech Still Breathing Coming phase 2 results on four different compounds will help investors assess how well Nastech's nasally-administered drugs might sell. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool February 12, 2010 Brian Orelli	Don't Ignore This Potential Blockbuster Five trials later, Roche's diabetes drug taspoglutide seems like a winner.
The Motley Fool July 8, 2008 Brian Lawler	Blockbuster Drugs Bound for Extinction? One of the biggest classes of prescription drugs, those for diabetes treatments, faces tougher FDA standards.
The Motley Fool June 16, 2010 Brian Orelli	A Drop on Bad News, but It Was a Long Shot Anyway Bydureon, Amylin Pharmaceuticals and Eli Lilly's once-weekly version of their twice-daily Byetta, has been beating up other diabetes drugs in a series of head-to-head clinical trials but it will have a tough time going after the monotherapy market.
The Motley Fool March 17, 2005 Stephen D. Simpson	Patience Rewarded at Last Amylin's battle to get Symlin approved was long and difficult, but success will have its rewards. Should investors take a shot?
The Motley Fool September 9, 2008 Brian Orelli	Drug Duo Combines Its Way Toward an Approval Bristol-Myers and AstraZeneca are trying to get their diabetes drug approved as a combination treatment.
The Motley Fool June 18, 2010 Brian Orelli	Hot Dog! No Competition for Now Roche's diabetes pipeline drug is delayed.
The Motley Fool July 22, 2009 Brian Orelli	The Blockbuster Around the Corner Amylin Pharmaceuticals' Byetta sales are improving, but is it enough?
The Motley Fool July 22, 2008 Brian Orelli	Anemic Amylin's Signs of Recovery Sales of Amylin Pharmaceuticals' diabetes drug Byetta have slowed over the last few quarters, but the company seems to be turning things around.
The Motley Fool January 27, 2006 Stephen D. Simpson	Challenges Needle Novo Nordisk The insulin franchise is attractive, but under threat. Guidance for 2006 wasn't impressive and there are definite challenges ahead. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool June 26, 2009 Brian Orelli	Looking for a Sliver of the Me-Too Pie Another diabetes drug is close to hitting the market.
The Motley Fool April 3, 2007 Brian Lawler	Merck Gets the Combo Merck gets marketing approval for a diabetes combination drug. Investors, take note.
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 February 20, 2009 Brian Orelli	The Skinny on Diabetes Drugs The goal of diabetes drugs is to get the patient's blood glucose levels under control, but one class of drugs, called GLP1 agonists, have a nice side effect: weight loss. Which pharma companies can benefit?
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.
The Motley Fool August 21, 2007 Brian Orelli	Sweet Phase 3 Data Although diabetes drugs have come under fire lately, insulin maker Novo Nordisk is moving full steam ahead with its newest drug to help fight type 2 diabetes.
The Motley Fool June 30, 2004 Alyce Lomax	A Monster Drug for Lilly? The drug giant files a new drug application (NDA) for its experimental new drug for diabetics.
The Motley Fool October 23, 2007 Brian Orelli	Old Merck on New Drugs It looks like the old Merck is back, with new drugs driving double-digit sales growth in the third-quarter.
The Motley Fool October 22, 2008 Brian Orelli	Merck's a Bloated Garbage Heap of Stale Drugs Now Merck is planning on cutting 12% of its workforce in the hopes of saving $4 billion through 2013.
The Motley Fool December 12, 2007 Brian Orelli	What's Merck Doing? With a nice solid pipeline Merck is on its way to its goal of double-digit EPS growth through 2010.
The Motley Fool October 2, 2007 Brian Orelli	Amylin's Bittersweet FDA News Diabetes drug moves ahead, but not as much as the company wanted. If the FDA rejection was due to safety issues, that wouldn't bode well for Amylin's plans to develop the active ingredient in SYMLIN as a weight-loss drug. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool December 12, 2008 Brian Orelli	Amylin Gets Some FDA Love Amylin's once-weekly diabetes drug Byetta gets a green light from the FDA.
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 October 18, 2010 Brian Orelli	Pfizer Flexes Its Generic Muscles The pharma giant moves farther into generic drugs.
The Motley Fool October 31, 2008 Brian Orelli	Disease Is Good for Novo Nordisk The Danish drugmaker is able to grow despite the Danish krone moving against the currencies that predominate its sales..
The Motley Fool February 28, 2007 Brian Lawler	Merck's Mighty Future Merck ups its 2007 financial forecast, while positive developments occur for two of its most promising new therapies.
The Motley Fool October 26, 2006 Brian Lawler	Arena Stays in the Game Despite having only early-pipeline offerings, Arena gets a boost from Cramer. More conservative investors can wait until more clinical trial results are released, since there should still be plenty of upside left in the stock if trial results are positive enough.
The Motley Fool September 28, 2009 Brian Orelli	Here We Go Again With Possible Side Effects The FDA says it has received 88 reports of pancreatitis in patients taking Merck's Januvia and Janumet.
The Motley Fool October 19, 2006 Brian Lawler	Amylin's One-Drug Wonder Unfortunately, with research and development costs growing to $54 million from $33 million last year, Amylin is still a few quarters away from profitability. Diabetes drug Byetta is set to boost Amylin's sales. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool January 30, 2008 Brian Lawler	Eli Lilly Is Resilient Proving that not every sector is affected by downturns, Eli Lilly released its fourth-quarter results yesterday, showing a bit of top-line growth.
The Motley Fool June 29, 2011 Brian Orelli	So Much Insulin, So Little Use for It MannKind settles its supply agreement with Merck.
The Motley Fool June 29, 2010 Brian Orelli	Diabetes Drug Development Pops and Drops When companies present at a major meeting, there's bound to be both.
The Motley Fool August 19, 2009 Brian Orelli	Them's the Breaks for Lilly The drugmaker cuts its losses after a disappointing trial on an osteoporosis drug.
The Motley Fool October 23, 2009 Brian Orelli	Merck-Schering Doesn't Look So Good Revenue is stagnant; let's hope that pipeline pans out.
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 November 3, 2009 Brian Orelli	Amylin Scores a Hat Trick Amylin Pharmaceuticals got a triple dose of good news over the weekend.
The Motley Fool November 13, 2007 Brian Lawler	Nektar's New Old Drug Pfizer returns its non-selling inhalable insulin experiment Exubera to Nektar Therapeutics today, along with $135 million in cash.
The Motley Fool October 22, 2008 Brian Orelli	Why Amylin Skipped Some Byetta Numbers Usually the company presents the individual sales numbers for its two diabetes drugs from the year-ago quarter for investors to compare. But this time they were conspicuously absent.
The Motley Fool April 28, 2005 Stephen D. Simpson	Novo Nordisk Could Use a Boost Investors reacted badly to first-quarter results, but there's still a lot to like about the Danish pharmaceutical.
The Motley Fool December 21, 2006 Brian Lawler	Dueling Fools: Merck Bull What you are getting with Merck is one of the best-managed pharmas out there that will be experiencing solid double-digit earnings growth in the not-too-distant future with a smart dividend payout.
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 November 6, 2006 Brian Lawler	The Impending Verdict on Momenta The drug developer isn't willing to wait for potential legislation on generic drugs. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool December 22, 2009 Brian Orelli	Some Incyte Into Why These Drugs Rock Eli Lilly jumps on the oral-drug-for-rheumatoid-arthritis bandwagon.