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The Motley Fool March 21, 2011 Brian Orelli	Let's See Some Data, Curis Curis investors seem to have shrugged off the multiple unknowns and embraced the potential for the company's skin cancer drug.
The Motley Fool April 28, 2009 Brian Orelli	Headline? Bad! Unexpected? No! For a company that only has one drug on the market, stopping a failing phase 3 clinical trial that's designed to expand the market of that drug is usually a major blow. But Onyx Pharmaceuticals was able to shrug it off.
The Motley Fool September 30, 2010 Brian Orelli	Bristol-Myers' Delayed Steal ZymoGenetics price tag looks more reasonable.
The Motley Fool June 7, 2011 Brian Orelli	Sometimes a Partnership Feels Personal Merck and Roche hook up for a diagnostic drug deal.
The Motley Fool June 21, 2011 Brian Orelli	Data Look Good, Approval Unknown Accelerated approvals are like that. The data should give Curis' investors added confidence that vismodegib works, but whether it can get approved with this limited data remains to be seen.
The Motley Fool May 24, 2010 Brian Orelli	ASCO Abstracts -- Pops and Drops! Ever since The American Society of Clinical Oncology began posting abstracts on-line -- and before that when they were sent to attendees -- investors have clamored to get a glimpse at the data. Here's your glimpse.
The Motley Fool August 28, 2009 Brian Orelli	Abbott Signs Up Another One Abbott announces that it has set up a partnership with Pfizer to run tests on Pfizer's new drug.
The Motley Fool March 1, 2007 Brian Lawler	Know Your Drug Stock ABCs: Part 2 Investing in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries can be difficult. Here are terms investors should know to better understand how the clinical trial process involved with bringing a drug to market works.
Chemistry World May 31, 2013 Phillip Broadwith	Two new 'personalized' cancer drugs approved Two new drugs for the most deadly kind of skin cancer have been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration. The drugs are only effective in patients whose tumors express specific genetic mutations, which can be identified using a device approved alongside the drugs.
The Motley Fool June 2, 2009 Brian Orelli	Pfizer: If You Can't Beat 'Em, Join 'Em Sutent fails. Again.
The Motley Fool October 16, 2007 Brian Orelli	Not a Blockbuster -- Yet Merck gains marketing approval for its newest HIV drug. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool June 23, 2009 Brian Orelli	Wonder Drug! Maybe? Get the facts before jumping on this one.
Chemistry World June 12, 2014 Andy Extance	Pharma vies to unleash immune system power on cancer Drug firms are investing heavily in clinical trials and collaborations as they seek to capitalize on the potential of cancer therapies that enlist or enhance our immune systems' ability to fight tumors.
BusinessWeek June 16, 2011 Langreth & Cortez	When Two Cancer Drugs Are Better Than One Drugmakers are collaborating to test combinations of genetically targeted cancer drugs in hopes of boosting survival rates.
The Motley Fool August 27, 2010 Brian Orelli	Down 35%! This Just Shouldn't Happen Someone's to blame and it isn't ImmunoGen.
The Motley Fool June 29, 2007 Brian Orelli	The Phase 2 Blues Drug developer Cytokinetics disappoints investors with failed clinical trials.
The Motley Fool September 9, 2011 Frank Vinluan	GSK Halts Part of Breast Cancer Trial; Drug Can't Top Herceptin GlaxoSmithKline has halted part of a phase 3 breast cancer clinical study after an independent committee concluded that the GSK drug administered alone is unlikely to work better than a rival cancer drug from Roche.
The Motley Fool July 6, 2009 Brian Orelli	Lilly Shows Us How It's Done The company announces that the Food and Drug Administration had expanded the approval of its cancer drug, Alimta, to include maintenance therapy for nonsquamous, non-small cell lung cancer.
The Motley Fool June 9, 2010 Brian Orelli	ASCO Pops and Drops Themes and company news from the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology.
The Motley Fool September 14, 2011 Frank Vinluan	Here's How New Roche Cancer Drug Zelboraf Benefits LabCorp A new Roche cancer drug expected to become a blockbuster could also end up being a boon for laboratory and diagnostics firm LabCorp.
The Motley Fool March 30, 2010 Brian Orelli	Invest in This Space at Your Own Risk Lung cancer is a tough foe for drugmakers.
The Motley Fool May 28, 2009 Brian Orelli	Make Money, Fight Disease: The ASCO Preview The big cancer meeting is upon us.
The Motley Fool June 6, 2011 Brian Orelli	Big Pharma Tackles Lung Cancer; Biotech Helping, Too A big underserved market.
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The Motley Fool April 3, 2009 Brian Orelli	Pfizer + Sutent = One Exciting Roller Coaster This time on the down slope, unfortunately.
The Motley Fool December 11, 2009 Brian Orelli	Roche and Biogen's Blockbuster Making Good Progress Roche and Biogen move their potential blockbuster through the clinical trial maze.
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 September 7, 2007 Brian Orelli	Merck Says No to This Protein An FDA advisory panel recommends unanimous approval of a new HIV drug from Merck. The new class of HIV medications fight the virus by blocking one key protein from entering cells.
The Motley Fool September 11, 2007 Brian Orelli	A Waiting Game for Aspreva It will be three years before Aspreva Pharmaceuticals and partner Roche evaluate results for a treatment for lupus. If and when the drug is approved, it will have to compete with a whole host of other drugs currently in trials. Investors take note.
The Motley Fool April 26, 2004 Alyce Lomax	Genentech's Lucky Day Genentech and OSI Pharmaceuticals jump in today's trading session after favorable trial results for a cancer drug.
BusinessWeek August 26, 2010 Tom Randall	Cocktails Are Next For Cancer-Drug Makers Taking a cue from the cocktails of drugs that have made AIDS survivable, drugmakers are pursuing combination therapies against cancer.
The Motley Fool October 30, 2006 Brian Lawler	InterMune Plays "Let's Make a Deal" The biopharmaceutical 's deal with Roche could mean stiff competition for rival Vertex. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool June 10, 2011 Brian Orelli	Great Data! Now Lets See More Than 12 Patients Micromet's blinatumomab looks good in a phase 2 trial.
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.
BusinessWeek May 27, 2010 Pettypiece & Gibson	Training the Immune System to Fight Cancer Bristol-Myers' new melanoma drug may be a "game changer."
The Motley Fool September 8, 2010 Brian Orelli	You Must Realize This Drug Works by Now Vertex concludes its phase 3 trials with another win.
The Motley Fool January 22, 2010 Brian Orelli	Pfizer's Great Data Won't Do Much The full data from a clinical trial testing Pfizer's Sutent in pancreatic cancer was truly amazing. Unfortunately, it's not going to do very much for the stock or Pfizer's bottom line.
The Motley Fool June 22, 2004 Charly Travers	Merck Pays Up for a Cancer Drug As demonstrated this morning with the announcement of a major deal with Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Merck is now in the midst of a strategic push to build out its oncology pipeline.
The Motley Fool January 30, 2009 Brian Orelli	Mark Your Calendars: The Race Is On! In the last couple of weeks, both Schering-Plough and Vertex Pharmaceuticals have announced that their phase 3 hepatitis C drugs trials have finished enrolling patients.
Chemistry World September 2007 Derek Lowe	Column: In the Pipeline Will Phase Zero trials actually help drug development?
The Motley Fool December 15, 2008 Brian Orelli	Medicine Gets a Little More Personal Genetic testing and personalized medicine are still in their infancy, but it's an emerging industry that should be huge in the long run. Which companies stand to benefit from it?
The Motley Fool June 7, 2010 Brian Orelli	Bristol Investors Go Crazy Wild. Are They Justified? Bristol-Myers Squibb is up a lot on an upgrade and some positive data coming out of the American Society of Clinical Oncology meeting, but investors need to be careful.
The Motley Fool May 28, 2010 Brian Orelli	This Drug Doesn't Work. But All Is Not Lost. Novartis cancer drug fails one trial, but there's still hope.
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BusinessWeek May 28, 2007 Bruce Einhorn	The Rush To Test Drugs In China Despite ethical concerns, Big Pharma is recruiting more patients for clinical trials in China.
The Motley Fool March 31, 2011 Brian Orelli	Hepatitis C Drugs Heat Up The current hepatitis C drugs stink. Who's ahead in the race to find new ones?
The Motley Fool November 25, 2008 Brian Orelli	Genentech Exhales The biotech had everything to lose and almost nothing to gain with its recent clinical trial.
BusinessWeek February 26, 2007 Arlene Weintraub	The Power Of The Pipeline Bristol-Myers Squibb is beset with troubles, but its new-drug potential makes it a target.