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The Case For (and Against) Big Pharma - Kiplinger.com Some of the major drug makers' shares look appealing -- but others you might not want to touch with four-foot forceps. By Bob Frick May 7, 2008 Big pharma needs a miracle drug. The major drug makers are so beaten down that in some instances dividend yields, rather than the next blockbuster drug in the pipeline, are what are ...

Healthcare Cash Crisis Will Hit Drugmakers -Report LONDON -(Dow Jones)- A looming cash crisis in global healthcare systems threatens to seriously disrupt drug companies' research into new drugs, pipelines, and pricing, a new report will warn this month. At the end of May, global management consultancy AT Kearney is to publish a paper, Healthcare Out Of Balance, warning healthcare ...

drunkguy, Very nice articles. I think anything healthcare is such a crapshoot, in a crapshoot game. Its bad enough trying to find good companies in the other sectors. In this sector it relies on not one, but two constantly changing entities of the Governments judgements. Whether it be a yay or nay in front of the FDA or whatever direction the political health insurance winds are blowing....

it's true there are a lot of variables, but I think most of the downside is already priced in big pharma is trading at very low multiples now, and the dividend yields are awesome with an aging population and a lot of health-care expansion in developing countries, I think there is a lot of room to grow definitely some concern stateside, but these copanies have plenty of other people to ...

Record venture capital and heated deal environment propel global biotechnology industry forward in 2007 - FierceBiotech Ernst & Young's 2008 Global Biotechnology Report reveals robust investment in the industry; sweeping trends that are transforming the industry Boston, 20 May 2008 - The global biotechnology industry achieved record levels in financing and deal making in 2007, as ...

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