Market Checkup: Headlines for August 15, 2013

In today's edition of Market Checkup, health-care analysts David Williamson and Max Macaluso take a close look at Onyx Pharmaceuticals, which may or may not be acquired in the coming weeks, and Eli Lilly, which recently announced positive clinical trial results for an experimental cancer drug.

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