Tomorrow, Eli Lilly & Co. (NYSE:LLY) will release its latest quarterly results.
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April 23 - News
A popular drug that crosses a benchmark sale of $1 billion for the manufacturer is called a blockbuster drug.
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April 18 - News
Two high-flying biotech stocks of late are NPS Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ:NPSP) and Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc (NASDAQ:REGN) .
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April 16 - News
Investors love stocks that consistently beat the Street without getting ahead of their fundamentals and risking a meltdown.
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April 9 - News
Roche Holding Ltd. (ADR) (PINK:RHHBY) and ISIS Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
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April 8 - News
Warren Buffett knows what he likes -- and he gets what he likes.
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April 7 - News
The immune system doesn't generally attack tumors on its own. Immune cells are designed to attack foreign invaders but leave the human cells alone.
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March 31 - News
Last November, I examined five experimental drugs that appeared as if they had all of the tools necessary to become life-changing blockbusters from a financial and quality of ...
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March 28 - News
After a wildly successful IPO that raised over $2 billion, and valued the newly-created company at more than $12 billion, pharmaceutical giant Pfizer Inc.
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March 28 - News
In this series, we'll highlight four companies in an industry, and compare their "cash king margins" over time, trying to determine which has the greatest likelihood of putting...
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March 27 - News
Sanofi SA (ADR) (NYSE:SNY) was in 45 hedge funds' portfolio at the end of the fourth quarter of 2012. SNY has experienced a decrease in hedge fund sentiment lately.
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March 27 - News
Every year, it appears that flu season starts earlier and earlier, and somehow, every year, the virus mutates into its "most virulent form ever." Sometimes it's a wonder we even...
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March 25 - News
You can't find a hotter topic in health care than obesity.
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March 20 - News
Funnily enough, I think that long term investors should be investing in the long term.
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March 19 - News
Merrimack Pharmaceuticals Inc (NASDAQ:MACK) may be the perfect biotech company for your speculative portfolio.
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March 19 - News
An Apple a day might not keep the doctor away, but the company's AppStore carries several solutions for tracking health care on the go -- and pharmaceutical companies continue...
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March 14 - News
The Motley Fool recently published its list of The 25 Best Companies in America and while Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.
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March 12 - News
The Motley Fool recently whittled down 1,700 public companies to name its list of The 25 Best Companies in America. Merck & Co., Inc.
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March 12 - News
The Dow set an all-time high, but it still was up only 2% for the week. If you want returns to really get excited about, look no further than the health-care sector.
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March 10 - News
Ultimately, that was the loss of those optimists. As value investors, we are not afraid of bad news as long as we get compensated by low valuations.
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March 7 - News
Motley Fool health care analyst Max Macaluso and Fool contributor Brian Orelli sat down to discuss Amarin Corporation plc (ADR) (NASDAQ:AMRN) , a biotech that recently launched...
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March 6 - News
Okay, Okay! Another ‘Warren Buffett buys this, Buffett buys that’ article.
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March 6 - Hedge Funds
Do good things come in small packages for big pharma? Most of investors' attention is given to blockbuster drugs and drugs that have the potential to be blockbusters.
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March 5 - News
As I commented last week, cancer statistics are both staggering and disappointing.
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March 5 - News
On Monday, Depomed Inc (NASDAQ:DEPO) is expected to go before the FDA panel with its menopausal hot-flash drug, Serada.
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March 4 - News
Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who's the frailest big pharma of all? The patent cliff has certainly taken its toll over the past couple of years, weakening several successful pharmaceutical...
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March 1 - News
Novo Nordisk A/S (ADR) (NYSE:NVO) recently got some bad news from the Food and Drug Administration: a request for additional information about a key insulin product.
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March 1 - News
Are Bristol Myers Squibb Co. (NYSE:BMY) and Eli Lilly & Co.
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February 25 - News
Shares of Novo Nordisk A/S (NYSE:NVO) are trying to recover from a recent sell-off that occurred after the FDA rejected its new drug Tresiba -- citing lack of a pre-approval ...
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February 25 - News
A SWOT analysis is a look at a company’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats, and is a tremendous way to gain a detailed and thorough perspective on a company ...
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February 25 - Dividend Stocks
Orphan drugs -- medications meant for small patient populations with rare, dangerous diseases -- can be a rewarding business for biotech firms that strike gold.
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February 22 - News
Sanofi SA (ADR) (NYSE:SNY) announced this week that the Food and Drug Administration began to review the company's once-daily type 2 diabetes injectable lixisenatide.
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February 21 - News
Horse meat and Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
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February 20 - News
Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ) may offer well-known personal-care products such as Listerine and Neutrogena, but it also boasts an impressive portfolio of market-leading therapeutic...
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February 20 - News
Biogen Idec Inc.(NASDAQ:BIIB) has just moved to reinforce its dominance in the multiple sclerosis treatment market by striking a deal to buy the 50% rights to Tysabri that it...
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February 19 - News
Earnings season is now starting to wind down, with most companies already having reported their quarterly results.
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February 19 - News
Pfizer Inc. (NYSE:PFE) faced a rough 2012 after Lipitor's loss of exclusivity in November 2011.
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February 18 - News
How many of us as investors want to identify companies that are pioneers in their industry? Is it possible to find commonality across sectors, which factors make specific companies...
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February 18 - News
Pfizer Inc. (NYSE:PFE) recently spun off animal health firm Zoetis Inc (NYSE:ZTS) in the form of an IPO.
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February 15 - News
Back in 2011, generic drug giant Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd (ADR) (NYSE:TEVA) dominated the MS field, riding the coattails of its Copaxone medication to success.
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February 14 - News
Merck & Co., Inc. (NYSE:MRK)'s blockbuster asthma and allergy treatment Singulair fell off patent last year -- wiping more than 60% of revenue off the company's top line.
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February 13 - News
Warren Buffett has made a name for himself by snatching up companies at deep discounts and holding until he’s captured as much value as possible.
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February 13 - News
Lackluster trading was being blamed for the Dow Jones Industrial Average ticking down 21 points yesterday, gripped by ennui over both domestic and international financial woes...
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February 12 - News
Typically, it doesn't take a lot for a stock to trade with gains/losses of more than 5% in a session; it can be caused by an analyst's remarks, sometimes it's caused by earnings...
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February 12 - News
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc (NASDAQ:REGN) said Monday that it got a notice from its partner Sanofi SA (NYSE:SNY) saying that the pharma intends to buy additional shares of the...
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February 12 - News
Big pharma's a good place to start if you're looking for dividend stocks.
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February 11 - Dividend Stocks
Keryx Biopharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:KERX)’s latest kidney drug called Zerenex is a game changer for the company after achieving positive results from its long-term Phase 3 study...
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February 11 - News
Looking for the hottest name in health care? Right now it's not big pharma nor even a hot biotech firm making waves on Wall Street; it's newly minted animal health firm Zoetis...
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February 7 - News
Since founding Farallon Capital Management in 1986, Thomas Steyer and fellow investment manager Andrew J. M.
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February 5 - Hedge Funds