Market Checkup: Spotlight on AbbVie

In this edition of The Motley Fool's health care show Market Checkup, health care analysts David Williamson and Max Macaluso take a close look at AbbVie, the pharmaceutical company that was spun out of Abbott at the start of the year.

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