Shares of the two largest kidney care companies in the United States, DaVita HealthCare Partners Inc (NYSE:DVA) and Fresenius Medical Care AG & Co.
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July 12 - News
The upcoming all-oral hepatitis C treatments earned well-deserved attention for some staggering cure rates, particularly in patient groups who haven’t responded well to the ...
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July 11 - News
RNAi and RNA companies had a terrible time when they were abandoned by big pharmaceutical companies.
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July 10 - News
Investors love stocks that consistently beat the Street without getting ahead of their fundamentals and risking a meltdown.
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July 8 - News
Shares of the two largest kidney care companies in the United States, DaVita HealthCare Partners Inc (NYSE:DVA) and Fresenius Medical Care AG & Co.
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July 8 - News
When it comes to investing for the long term, sometimes companies that are thought of as “stable” or “boring” turn out to be the best thing for your portfolio.
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July 5 - News
When you are looking to add a biotech stock to your portfolio, most of the small cap biotech stocks have a small-sized pipeline.
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July 5 - News
When it comes to investing, obviously making money is key and the best way to make money is to find the most profitable company set to generate huge amounts of cash in the future...
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July 5 - News
Love it or hate it, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act -- commonly referred to as Obamacare -- changes the health care landscape.
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July 5 - News
After all of the hype and hoopla over Pfizer Inc.
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July 3 - News
When looking for the best dividend stocks, it's usually best to not chase the highest dividend.
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July 2 - News
Over the last three decades I have seen my share of bull and bear markets.
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July 1 - News
The wealth-building power of compound interest will never cease to amaze me.
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July 1 - News
Merck & Co., Inc. (NYSE:MRK) has had its fair share of bad news recently. Shares have pulled back around 5% in June.
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July 1 - News
To prove my point, I looked at the multi-year chart and picked out some of the peaks.
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July 1 - News
Companies know that to attract regular income-seeking investors, it helps to pay out high dividends.
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July 1 - News
Merck & Co., Inc. (NYSE:MRK) stock has become dependent on its diabetes drug Januvia over the past couple of years for revenue growth.
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July 1 - News
An entity with deep pockets is looking to buy boatloads of Pfizer Inc. (NYSE:PFE) stock. And we're talking yacht-sized boatloads -- not canoe-sized ones.
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July 1 - News
If you owned Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ) stock at the beginning of 2013, you're sitting atop gains of more than 20% right now.
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June 28 - News
Enterprise value is a measure of a company's value.
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June 28 - News
On June 24, the Food and Drug Administration issued “bioequivalence recommendations” for 15 active ingredients used in prescription medications.
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June 28 - News
After a series of failures, one is forced to wonder whether the medical fraternity, including the research and development wing of Eli Lilly & Co.
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June 27 - News
After the failure of its pipeline products for Alzheimer’s and rheumatoid arthritis, the drug giant Eli Lilly & Co. (NYSE:LLY) finally has some good news to report.
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June 27 - News
Investing in biotech companies can be risky; developing new drugs is a long, expensive, and uncertain process, and there is always considerable regulatory risk in the industry...
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June 26 - News
Stocks have taken a beating over the past two weeks, but Wall Street's getting a welcome moment of respite today.
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June 25 - News
A director at Deloitte Services LP and co-author of The Three Rules: How Exceptional Companies Think, Michael Raynor joins The Fool to share his findings about what makes a company...
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June 25 - News
Blame it on a "case of the Mondays" or perhaps a rough night out on the town, but for many of us getting a good night's rest isn't nearly as simple as it sounds.
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June 25 - News
Pfizer Inc. (NYSE:PFE) was in 81 hedge funds' portfolio at the end of the first quarter of 2013. PFE shareholders have witnessed an increase in hedge fund interest recently.
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June 24 - News
One of the reasons investors regard the 30 stocks in the Dow Jones Industrial Average 2 Minute (INDEXDJX:.DJI) as blue-chip giants is that all 30 of them pay dividends.
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June 24 - News
Mark your calendars Amarin Corporation plc (ADR) (NASDAQ:AMRN) investors.
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June 20 - News
A new Supreme Court ruling presents pharmaceutical companies with a tough choice -- stop paying generic-drug producers to withhold generic options from the market, or risk getting...
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June 20 - News
A director at Deloitte Services LP and coauthor of The Three Rules: How Exceptional Companies Think, Michael Raynor joins the Fool to share his findings about what makes a company...
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June 20 - News
It started running in 1980, when a series of interest rate increases by the Federal Reserve finally broke the back of inflation, and it galloped onward for more than three decades...
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June 19 - Stock Analysis
The best thing about the stock market is that you can make money in either direction. Historically, stock indexes have tended to trend up over the long term.
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June 19 - News
A spate of 10 biotechs went public this year, raising over $725 million.
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June 19 - News
Investors can never predict whether the market will rise or fall on any given day, but lately, a pretty good bet has been to expect some substantial volatility in one direction...
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June 19 - News
Wall Street is in a good mood again a day before the conclusion of the Federal Reserve's policy meeting.
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June 18 - News
London-based pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca plc (ADR) (NYSE:AZN) recently announced that it had agreed to purchase U.S.-based lung-drug manufacturer Pearl Therapeutics for at...
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June 18 - News
About a third of American adults have high LDL cholesterol -- that's the bad kind -- but less than half of adults with high LDL seek treatment, according to the Centers for Disease...
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June 18 - News
Abbott Laboratories (NYSE:ABT) seems to think its stock is cheap enough to justify sinking a substantial amount of its nest egg into the company's stock.
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June 18 - News
The S&P 500 fell nearly 10% in June 2008, and investors began to brace for an eventual market crash later in the year.
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June 17 - Stock Analysis
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) made a groundbreaking policy change last year that is having a large impact on the biotech industry and creating a big opportunity for...
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June 17 - Stock Analysis
A new drug in the fight against cancer is certainly an exciting and welcome development.
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June 17 - News
The latest drug to bite the dust is LY2886721, a beta secretase, or BACE, inhibitor.
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June 17 - News
Investing in biotech stocks is relatively risky amid the volatility of the market. There are many factors that can greatly affect share trends and price performance.
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June 13 - News
Celgene Corporation (NASDAQ:CELG) shares have soared more than 46% so far in 2013.
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June 12 - News
Nearly every big pharma player has been hit with patent expirations that have hit hard on sales lately, and Merck & Co., Inc. (NYSE:MRK) is no exception. Merck & Co., Inc.
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June 12 - News
Merck & Co., Inc. (NYSE:MRK) has been trying to generate more value for its shareholders via its share buyback program.
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June 12 - News
After the announcement from the Bank of Japan that it will hold firm with its economic stimulus, the U.S. markets headed south.
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June 12 - News
Pharmaceutical giant Merck & Co., Inc.
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June 11 - News
