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The Motley Fool June 17, 2004 Tom Taulli	No Exultation Over HR Deal Yesterday, human resources outsourcing and consulting firm Hewitt Associates announced it was purchasing Exult in a stock-for-stock deal. Shareholders dumped on the deal. But a Hewitt-Exult combination makes a lot of sense.
Managed Care September 2006 Martin Sipkoff	PBMs Raise the Curtain Efforts are under way to find out exactly how pharmacy benefit managers work their magic.
The Motley Fool August 23, 2004 Ben McClure	Rethinking Big Pharma Risk is knocking Big Pharma stocks down. They won't be getting up anytime soon. Competition, soaring R&D costs, shifting business models, and political meddling combine to make drug stocks a riskier place to invest.
The Motley Fool January 22, 2007 Michael P. Cecil	Will Medicare Negotiate With Drug Companies? One of the bedrock principles of our economic system is that those buying more of a product receive a discount. Wouldn't empowering Medicare to save taxpayers' money be widely embraced as a great idea? But how would pharma investors see it?
The Motley Fool March 11, 2004 Bill Mann	Pennsylvania Sues Drug Makers Anyone who thinks that the new prescription drug benefit plan (the Medicare Modernization Act) signed by President Bush will have anything resembling predictable expenses needs to pay attention to what's going on in Pennsylvania. The commonwealth filed suit yesterday against 13 large drug companies, accusing them of price manipulation.
The Motley Fool July 9, 2004 Phil Wohl	Abbott Labs Concocts Strong Q2 The drug maker reports earnings as expected and refines its third-quarter guidance.
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 May 7, 2004 Brian Gorman	CVS Fuels the Drug Debate Thomas Ryan, the CEO of CVS, supports reimporting drugs from Canada before Congress. Drugs from European companies may actually have a greater impact on price.
Entrepreneur November 2004 Julie Monahan	Club Meds Fed up with the high cost of prescription drugs, a group of 50 employers from the Fortune 500 are banding together to negotiate a better deal with pharmaceutical companies.
Managed Care February 2008	Antitrust Exemption Sought in Congress The so-called Community Pharmacy Fairness Act (HR 971) would allow independent pharmacies to negotiate collectively with health plans, insurers, and PBMs, including plans under Medicare parts C and D.
Managed Care October 2005	Health Plans Pay Less When PBM Owns Mail-Order Pharmacy The ongoing debate on whether health plans pay more for drugs when using a mail-order pharmacy owned by a pharmacy benefits manager (PBM) or when the mail-order pharmacy is not owned by a PBM may be closer to resolution.
Managed Care November 2007 Martin Sipkoff	PBMs Agree to Disclose What They Pay for Drugs Pharmacy benefit managers will charge employers a straight administrative fee, rather than make much of their income through deals with the drug industry.
CFO February 22, 2005 Martha E. Mangelsdorf	I Want a New Drug Plan Companies hoping to curb prescription-drug charges are looking at a host of new cost-control measures.
The Motley Fool September 15, 2010 Brian Orelli	Drug Approved. Now Let's Sell This Baby! With ink still wet on its FDA approval, Savient continues its plan to find a buyer.
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 March 28, 2008 Brian Orelli	Wyeth Fires to Get Back on Fire The first round of Wyeth's cuts look like the right move for the big pharma company.
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 December 29, 2009 Brian Orelli	Some Brand-Name Patents: Going, Going, Gone in 2010 Generic drug competition is coming for Lipitor, Plavix, and others.
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The Motley Fool December 6, 2004 Brian Gorman	Pill-Popping Nation Americans are using more prescription drugs. Unfortunately for big pharma investors, pharmaceutical companies' benefits from these trends are tempered by other factors.
The Motley Fool June 30, 2005 Brian Gorman	The Co-Pay Effect Higher co-payments look like the wave of the future, and investors should expect the trend to boost major generic players like Teva Pharmaceutical, Mylan Laboratories, and Novartis.
The Motley Fool July 19, 2004 Brian Gorman	Medicare Revises Stance on Obesity Medicare has added its two cents to the national conversation on the U.S.'s obesity problem, and its new policy has potentially important implications for many pharmaceutical companies.
The Motley Fool June 8, 2011 Brian Orelli	Blockbuster Drug-Like Profits, No FDA Required Pfizer keeps the cuts coming.
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The Motley Fool August 30, 2004	Who's in the Dow? Did you realize that the Dow is an average of just 30 companies?
The Motley Fool March 22, 2004 Seth Jayson	Stent Wars Going Strong New studies show stents do little to stop heart attacks. What does that mean for stent makers?
The Motley Fool December 11, 2006 Michael P. Cecil	Why Doesn't Buffett Buy Drug Companies? Investors, how do you estimate the amount of money that a drug company, or perhaps more simply one of its drugs, will produce over its lifetime?
The Motley Fool June 23, 2010 Kris Eddy	Drugmakers Finally Recognize the Next Big Opportunity Drug companies seem to be increasing efforts to address female health problems.
The Motley Fool April 21, 2004 Ben McClure	Discount Pharmacy With prices beaten down across the pharmaceuticals industry and the quarterly reporting season here, do any investment opportunities pop up?
The Motley Fool May 10, 2011 Brian Orelli	Uncontrolled Crying Over AVANIR's Prescription Data? It's been a slow start, but don't write off this company's pseudobulbar drug just yet.
The Motley Fool April 26, 2011 Brian Orelli	We Hate Your Drug. And That's a Good Thing. This one's a pain for the clinical trial participants.
InternetNews October 13, 2004 Roy Mark	Report: The Internet and Drugs Don't Mix It seems an increasing number of Americans are researching drugs online, but safety fears chill buying.
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 November 8, 2006 Michael P. Cecil	CVS/Caremark: A Brobdingnagian Drug Seller The merger of CVS and Caremark says a lot about pharmaceutical retailers and pharmacy benefit mangers trying to deal with a rapidly changing paradigm.
The Motley Fool June 12, 2006 Brian Gorman	Biogeneric Payoff? A new report indicates that spending on specialty drugs increased 17.5% in 2005. This growth bodes well for makers of biotech drugs, which make up a large portion of the specialty drug category. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool May 7, 2010 Brian Orelli	Drug Companies: Recession-Resistant, but Government-Proof? Greece decided to take action and forced drugmakers to reduce drug costs by an average of 21.5%. Investors need to think twice before making the seemingly sure bet on pharmaceutical companies.
Managed Care August 2002 Madeleine A. Estabrook	Regulators Take More Interest In Role of PBMs in Health Care In a highly regulated industry such as health care, it is just a matter of time before every component of the industry comes under scrutiny and review. Pharmacy benefit managers are taking center stage now.
Registered Rep. March 1, 2005 David A. Twibell	What Ails You? Investors who are wary of big pharma investments have good reasons to be. But this does not mean that the sector is to be avoided at all costs. Indeed, for savvy, well-informed investors, now might be a good time to jump in.
The Motley Fool January 21, 2011 Brian Orelli	Mark Your Calendar, Drug Investors Vertex announces that the Food and Drug Administration has accepted its New Drug Application to market telaprevir.
The Motley Fool May 5, 2010 Brian Orelli	Doubled Revenue, but Not High Growth An acquisition and some rearrangements make Merck's revenue line sound better than it is.
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BusinessWeek January 21, 2010 John Carey	Making Personalized Medicine Pay Medco and other pharmacy benefit managers say future profits depend on matching drugs to patients based on their genes.
The Motley Fool January 27, 2011 Brian Orelli	Abbott Labs: Growth in All the Wrong Places Abbott's a solid company with solid dividend and growth potential in the near term. But investors need to be careful extrapolating that growth out.
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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.
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