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Icahn boosts stake in Amylin

September 15, 2008 — 10:51am ET | By Tracy Staton
Guess who's knocking at Amylin Pharmaceuticals' door? None other than activist investor Carl Icahn, who boosted his stake in the company to 10.1 million shares, or 7.3 percent. Known for rattling the... Read more...

Amylin: Byetta outperforms Januvia

September 10, 2008 — 3:20am ET | By Christe Bruderlin-Nelson
You have to give them credit for trying. Following all the bad news about Byetta possibly leading to Read more...

Can good Byetta news counteract the bad?

September 8, 2008 — 10:34am ET | By Tracy Staton
The Byetta saga continues today: Amylin Pharmaceuticals saw its stock fall Friday after a Citi Investment analyst decreed that the diabetes med causes four times as many cases of pancreatitis as... Read more...

Lilly, Amylin suffer on Byetta deaths

August 27, 2008 — 1:51am ET | By Christe Bruderlin-Nelson
Eli Lilly and Amylin Pharmaceuticals have reported four more deaths of patients taking the diabetes drug Byetta. This is in addition to the two deaths that Read more...

Are investors overreacting to Amylin news?

August 20, 2008 — 10:48am ET | By Christe Bruderlin-Nelson
Bad news from the FDA can hurt pharma companies fast and after earlier news this week that Amylin's diabetes drug Byetta was associated with some serious cases of acute pancreatitis, the company's... Read more...

Does Lilly's Byetta extend life?

August 5, 2008 — 10:32am ET | By Tracy Staton
Yesterday, we reported a little pooh-poohing of a potential deal between Eli Lilly and Byetta partner... Read more...

Novo drug bests Byetta in ADA study

June 9, 2008 — 11:03am ET | By Tracy Staton
SPOTLIGHT: Novo drug bests Byetta in ADA studyAmylin Pharmaceuticals' stock is suffering from a Novo Nordisk study that showed its experimental diabetes drug liraglutide outperformed Amylin's... Read more...

Lilly diabetes med linked to pancreatitis

October 17, 2007 — 6:59am ET
A fast-growing Eli Lilly med may be held back by a new warning linking it to acute pancreatitis. After 30 reports of pancreatitis in patients using the injectable diabetes drug Byetta--five of which... Read more...