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The Motley Fool January 7, 2010 Brian Orelli |
Warning: Potential Anemic Growth Ahead Anemia-drug makers get more scrutiny from the FDA.  |
The Motley Fool June 3, 2011 Brian Orelli |
FDA Bullies Obesity Drugmakers It's been clear for some time that the Food and Drug Administration isn't particularly fond of obesity drugs. Now it's just being a bully.  |
The Motley Fool June 28, 2004 Alyce Lomax |
Is Amgen's Engine Stalled? Amgen slipped in today's trading session after it said that an experimental drug for advanced cases of Parkinson's disease didn't meet its primary end point in a recent clinical trial.  |
The Motley Fool June 2, 2010 Brian Orelli |
Little Surprise. Big Stock Move. Investors like Amgen's early approval;shares are up 9% today, well ahead of the overall market.  |
The Motley Fool September 7, 2010 Luke Timmerman |
Vertex Nails Third Big Trial With Hepatitis C Drug And in the toughest patients to treat, too.  |
The Motley Fool June 30, 2010 Brian Orelli |
Which Midsized Biotech Is the Best Buy? Biogen Idec, Amgen, or Gilead? Which of these biotechs has the most potential for growth?  |
The Motley Fool March 8, 2010 Brian Orelli |
Really? A 59% Share Price Jump for That? Justified or not, InterMune skyrockets ahead of an FDA panel meeting.  |
The Motley Fool April 4, 2007 Brian Lawler |
Novartis Gets Nicked Novartis pulls one of its top-selling drugs from the market. Investors should come to expect drug delays or similar issues popping up from time to time when doing their analysis of large pharmas.  |
The Motley Fool March 10, 2010 Brian Orelli |
Up 160% With Room to Run You've got to love biotech and InterMune.  |
The Motley Fool August 9, 2010 Luke Timmerman |
Affymax Lives to Fight Another Day Affymax takes on Amgen with its anemia drug.  |
Pharmaceutical Executive April 1, 2011 |
Off-Label But On Point? Use of off-label drugs is a balancing act for physicians, and poses even more problems for pharma. The FDA is moving slowly to help.  |
The Motley Fool December 31, 2010 Brian Orelli |
2010 FDA Approvals and a Look Ahead Recent history can help us handicap FDA decisions.  |
The Motley Fool January 25, 2010 Brian Orelli |
No Way to Hide This Drug Approval FDA trumps Acorda on its good news. The biotech announced Food and Drug Administration approval of Ampyra, its drug to help multiple sclerosis patients walk better after the markets closed on Friday.  |
The Motley Fool February 16, 2010 Brian Orelli |
For Blockbuster Cancer Drugs, Approvals Are the Easy Part Don't get too excited. As an investor, you can lower your risk by investing in cancer drug companies after a clinical trial success but before an FDA approval, but you'll also reduce your reward.  |
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.  |
The Motley Fool November 19, 2010 Brian Orelli |
One Drug, Two Names, Two Wildly Different Prospects Amgen double speaks for increased sales.  |
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 January 29, 2010 Brian Orelli |
How to Make Billions of Dollars Without Really Trying Lackluster Alzheimer's drugs have been doing it for years.  |
The Motley Fool July 17, 2007 Brian Orelli |
An Investor's Guide to the New PDUFA It's important for investors in drug companies to keep up with the latest clinical trial news, but policy changes in Washington can affect companies' bottom lines just as much.  |
BusinessWeek March 22, 2004 Arlene Weintraub |
Amgen Opens The Secret Curtain The biotech leader will host analysts and investors to drum up excitement for its pipeline -- and its stock. Will it work?  |
Chemistry World September 24, 2010 Andrew Turley |
End of the road for Avandia? The European Medicines Agency has decided the troubled diabetes drug should be pulled from the market while the US Food and Drug Administration has said it will 'significantly restrict' its use.  |
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 June 8, 2010 Brian Orelli |
Injecting Uncertainty Into the Multiple Sclerosis Market Novartis' oral MS drug could be a blockbuster -- if it can get past the FDA.  |
The Motley Fool August 9, 2010 Jim Mueller |
3 Stocks to Play Biotech Three promising ideas for investing in this exciting area.  |
The Motley Fool March 29, 2010 Brian Orelli |
Look for Companies That Strike First Head-to-head trials, whether they're run by companies or by third parties, can be scary. But the way to make big money is by selling drugs that offer superior benefits, so investors should welcome the onslaught of upcoming comparative trial data.  |
The Motley Fool April 7, 2011 Brian Orelli |
When Zombies Attack, Investors Win Novartis is hoping that Prexige has as much success coming back from the dead as Tysabri has.  |
The Motley Fool July 12, 2004 Ben McClure |
Falling for Amgen Ahead of its second-quarter earnings release, the biotech giant looks good.  |
The Motley Fool September 14, 2010 Luke Timmerman |
Arena Obesity Drug Effective by "Slim Margin"; Shares Tumble The market is reacting negatively to news about the company's weight-loss drug.  |
The Motley Fool January 25, 2011 Brian Orelli |
2 Keys to Amgen's Continued Success Prolia and Xgeva have to perform.  |
The Motley Fool August 10, 2010 Ryan McBride |
Vertex's Telaprevir Clears Hurdle, Could Halve Treatment Times for Hepatitis C Study results are positive.  |
The Motley Fool January 3, 2011 Brian Orelli |
Clinical Trial Results Fail to Inspire Inspire Pharma gets cut in half after a cystic fibrosis trial failure.  |
The Motley Fool July 30, 2010 Brian Orelli |
A Faster Pathway to Drug Approvals A thinktank called the Pacific Research Institute has proposed letting drugs approved by the European Medicines Authority onto the market in the U.S. before the Food and Drug Administration has approved the drugs.  |
The Motley Fool April 26, 2011 Luke Timmerman |
FDA Says Vertex Drug a Wee Bit More Effective Than Advertised; Stock Climbs Good news for Vertex?  |
The Motley Fool January 31, 2011 Brian Orelli |
5 Drugmakers Headed Back to the Drawing Board Sometimes an FDA rejection is more of a to-do list.  |
The Motley Fool April 21, 2011 Brian Orelli |
Tysabri Means Everything to Biogen and Elan ... for Now It's rare to find a drug that affects two companies as much as Tysabri does Biogen Idec and Elan.  |
BusinessWeek January 14, 2010 Rob Waters |
Amgen: Strengthening Bones, Weakening Cancer? Regulators may soon approve an Amgen drug, denosumab, for osteoporosis, but the payoff could be in oncology.  |
The Motley Fool December 22, 2009 Brian Orelli |
2009 Biotech Cheers and Jeers Lessons from biotech's 2009 surprises. Will 2010 be just as exciting? Considering that it's biotech, I'd have to say "yes."  |
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 July 27, 2010 Jim Mueller |
3 Stocks to Play Biotech Here are three promising ideas for this exciting area.  |
The Motley Fool August 26, 2009 Brian Orelli |
Amgen Falls Back on the Future Instead of the TREAT trial for Aranesp, Amgen's new cherry is Prolia's potential to treat cancer patients, for which Amgen could get marketing approval next year.  |
The Motley Fool February 1, 2011 Brian Orelli |
Orexigen Falls Short Its obesity drug fails in the final mile of the drug-development marathon.  |
The Motley Fool February 9, 2010 Brian Orelli |
Bone Up On This Potential Blockbuster Amgen's denosumab passes another test on its way to potential blockbuster status.  |
The Motley Fool October 19, 2010 Brian Orelli |
When the Status Quo Is a Big Win The lack of an FDA rejection will do just fine. Amgen and Johnson & Johnson seemed to get through the FDA advisory panel process without much problem yesterday.  |
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 February 9, 2011 Luke Timmerman |
Amgen Pushes Ahead With "Son of Dmab" for Treating Bones Is there more to Amgen than "Dmab"?  |
Chemistry World May 14, 2015 Rebecca Trager |
FDA accused of violating drug company's freedom of speech The US Food and Drug Administration is under pressure to reconsider its policy prohibiting pharmaceutical companies from promoting 'off-label' uses of their products.  |
The Motley Fool September 9, 2010 Brian Orelli |
Will These Drugs Get Past the FDA This Month? See what the FDA has on its decision calendar for the rest of September.  |
The Motley Fool October 10, 2005 Stephen D. Simpson |
The FDA: Boon, Bane, Whipping Boy Everyone wants the FDA to be faster, better, and cheaper, but that may not be a credible expectation. Investors would do well to keep an eye on the FDA because its policies and pressures ultimately filter down to our medicine cabinets, wallets, and portfolios.  |
The Motley Fool April 27, 2011 Brian Orelli |
Don't Get Pumped Up About Pumping It In Medtronic and Eli Lilly team up against Parkinson's.  |
The Motley Fool November 30, 2010 Brian Orelli |
A Witty Response to Pharma's R&D Dilemma According to GlaxoSmithKline CEO Andrew Witty, the pharmaceutical industry is a mess. That's the basic gist of his opinion piece in The Economist.  |