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The Motley Fool July 8, 2011 Brian Orelli	Let's Just Hope For No More FDA Surprises Despite the government's worries, Bydureon doesn't cause heart issues.
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 20, 2010 Brian Orelli	There Are No Safe Biotech Investments Amylin Pharmaceuticals and its partners, Eli Lilly and Alkermes, announced yesterday evening that the Food and Drug Administration had asked for more data before approving its once-weekly diabetes drug Bydureon.
The Motley Fool March 15, 2010 Brian Orelli	FDA Says "No Way!" Market Says "Yeah, Baby!" You can have it both ways. The Food and Drug Administration's response wasn't exactly what investors in Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Eli Lilly, and Alkermes were looking for, but they'll take it.
The Motley Fool January 27, 2011 Brian Orelli	Amylin Timeline Shortened -- Maybe Revenue down 6% year over year. Prescriptions of the company's top-selling drug, Byetta, down 5.9% quarter over quarter. Amylin Pharmaceuticals' fourth quarter wasn't pretty.
The Motley Fool December 31, 2011 Brian Orelli	3 Stock-Moving Binary Events to Watch in 2012 Binary events, FDA decisions, and clinical trial results, are the lifeblood -- and death wish -- of the biotech industry. Here are three to watch in 2012.
The Motley Fool March 3, 2011 Brian Orelli	Amylin Comes Up Snake Eyes Amylin Pharmaceuticals and partners Eli Lilly and Alkermes announced results of their head-to-head clinical trial comparing Bydureon with Novo Nordisk's diabetes drug Victoza.
The Motley Fool December 14, 2011 David Williamson	BioSante Investors: It Was Nice While It Lasted Libigel loses to placebo in two studies, shares down 75% after hours.
The Motley Fool March 3, 2011 Brian D. Pacampara	Amylin Pharmaceuticals Shares Plunged: What You Need to Know Shares of Amylin Pharmaceuticals plummeted more than 20% Thursday after its type 2 diabetes drug Bydureon failed to meet primary endpoints in a 26-week study.
The Motley Fool July 13, 2011 Brian Orelli	BioSante Is Ready for Some Action Investors are opening positions in BioSante in anticipation of the release of company data from two clinical trials for its female sexual-dysfunction treatment, LibiGel, by the end of the year.
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The Motley Fool March 3, 2009 Brian Orelli	A Tale of 2 Weeks It's been a busy two weeks at Genzyme as two nasty notes from the FDA follow two approvals.
The Motley Fool January 26, 2010 Brian Orelli	Is Victoza's Victory in Vain? Novo Nordisk finally gets the FDA to sign off on its once-daily diabetes drug.
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The Motley Fool May 9, 2007 Brian Lawler	Diagnosing Dendreon Postmortem The FDA issues an approvable letter for Dendreon's top compound. Investors, take note.
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The Motley Fool November 26, 2010 Brian Orelli	Black Friday Biotech Bargains Drugmakers on sale.
The Motley Fool July 22, 2010 Brian Orelli	It's All About the Future for Amylin Its second quarter stank, but there's a lot up ahead.
The Motley Fool August 17, 2007 Brian Orelli	Fewer Drug Approvals? Buy! Stricter standards at the FDA could create a buying opportunity. Drug approvals are down one third this year, creating a lot of value in pharmaceutical and biotech companies. Just choose your medicines carefully.
The Motley Fool December 15, 2011 Brian Orelli	BioSante Shares Crushed by Placebo Effect BioSante's LibiGel efficacy is not deemed statistically significant.
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The Motley Fool November 8, 2011 David Williamson	Biotech Pops, Drops, and Break-Ups Highlighting the day's health-care stories critical to investors.
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The Motley Fool January 28, 2011 Brian Orelli	Value Investing, Biotech Style Biotech investors should regard every binary event as a varying degree of confidence in a positive or negative result.
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 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 April 15, 2011 Brian Orelli	Fewer Needle Pricks for the Europeans Amylin's once-weekly diabetes drug Bydureon gets a positive recommendation in Europe.
The Motley Fool July 18, 2007 Brian Lawler	More Misery for Neurochem It's hard to find another drug developer that has mishandled its correspondence with investors about its drug candidates as badly as Neurochem has over the past year.
The Motley Fool November 9, 2011 Brian Orelli	Byetta Breakup! Buying Opportunity? We all saw this coming. Amylin Pharmaceuticals and Eli Lilly decided staying together for the kids just wasn't worth it
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The Motley Fool February 25, 2011 Brian Orelli	When the Companies Know, Investors Should, Too Why don't more companies preannounce FDA rejections?
The Motley Fool January 28, 2010 Brian Orelli	The Next Amgen? Not Yet. Amylin Pharmaceuticals is in much the same situation as Amgen is in: relatively flat sales, and the potential for a nice boost from a Food and Drug Administration approval shortly. But that's where the comparison ends.
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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.
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