Market Checkup: Sept. 16, 2013

In this edition of the Motley Fool's health-care show Market Checkup, analysts David Williamson and Max Macaluso look at the big pharma companies circling biotech ViroPharma, a cancer drug granted priority review by the FDA, and a serious patent issue that affects fish oil drugmakers GlaxoSmithKline and Amarin.

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