Lipitor News

When the blockbuster cholesterol pill Vytorin failed to best the less potent generic in a clinical trial earlier this year, many cardiologists were shocked.

Use of cholesterol-lowering drugs called statins rose by 156 percent between 2000 and 2005, with spending jumping from $7.7 billion to $19.7 billion, the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality reported ...

Avis from Philadelphia called NBC 10 to ask, "Can you stop a heart attack by coughing?" She said she sometimes gets e-mails saying you can and wonders if it's true.

The pharma industry, like many other industries in the down U.S. economy, is due to consolidate.

In 2006, Pfizer's Lipitor generated global revenues of $13.6bn, making it the best selling drug in pharmaceutical history.

Has Malvinder Singh truly freed Ranbaxy from risk by opting for an out-of-court settlement with Pfizer over Lipitor as he has claimed? The markets and analysts certainly thought otherwise.

I'm sure you've heard of 'statins' like Lipitor , Zocor , and Pravachol . These powerful cholesterol-lowering medicines are widely used some people make jokes about adding them to the water supply.

Mumbai, June 19 : Shares of Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd slid on the stock markets today on speculation that the settlement with Pfizer Inc over cholesterol-lowering drug Lipitor would benefit Ranbaxy only ...

Published Thursday, June 19, 2008 at 4:30 a.m. Last updated Thursday, June 19, 2008 at 2:40 a.m. For people with high cholesterol, the wait for a cheaper version of Lipitor has gotten longer.

Under terms of the settlement, Ranbaxy will obtain a license effective Nov. 30, 2011, to sell generic versions of Pfizer's cholesterol-lowering drug Lipitor and high blood-pressure and cholesterol treatment ...

A genetic quirk in the production of one protein helps explain why some people don't get the full cholesterol-lowering benefit of statin drugs, researchers report.

People may think that if they buy lipitor online, they may have to pay high lipitor cost and often become puzzled while deciding from where to buy lipitor.

GlaxoSmithKline and Merck are about to lay off workers. But it's not just falling sales, it's increased competition.

A year ago, I would have never penned this article. Six months ago, when my nemesis for this duel picked Pfizer as the worst stock for 2006 , I cheered him on by giving the article a recommendation.

When 61-year-old Mark Aloe learned that he had high cholesterol and a family history of heart disease nearly 20 years ago, he immediately set out on the standard course of treatment for heart patients with high ...