Ranbaxy and Pfizer Settle Lipitor Litigation Worldwide
Ranbaxy Will Market Generic Atorvastatin in the U.S. With 180 Days Exclusivity From Nov. 30, 2011 Agreement Also Resolves Caduet, Accupril Litigation in the US GURGAON, Harayana, India and PRINCETON, N.J., June 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Ranbaxy Laboratories Limited (Ranbaxy...Simvastatin Leads Pfizer's Lipitor in Second-Line Patient Share for the Treatment of Dyslipidemia
Results from the ENHANCE Trial Impacting Physician Prescribing Patterns, According to a New Report from Decision Resources WALTHAM, Mass., May 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Decision Resources, one of the world's leading research and advisory firms for pharmaceutical and healthcare issues, finds...Celebrex Plus Lipitor Could Fight Prostate Cancer
Combining painkiller with statin slows tumor progression, mouse study suggests MONDAY, April 14 (HealthDay News) -- Two widely used drugs -- one lowers cholesterol and one is an anti-inflammatory -- may be useful in controlling prostate cancer. New research being presented at the Am...PatientAssistance.com Releases the Top 20 Most Popular Searches for Patient Assistance Programs
...ALL XR (1183) 2. Lexapro (635) 3. LANTUS (556) 4. PLAVIX (533) 5. ADVAIR DISKUS (472) 6. Cymbalta (412) 7. NEXIUM (390) 8. lipitor (389) 9. ABILIFY (361) 10. SINGULAIR (345) 11. TOPAMAX (340) 12. LISINOPRIL (333) 13. LAMICTAL (327) 14. Suboxone (319) 15...Statins don't lower risk of pneumonia in elderly
... SEATTLE Taking popular cholesterol-lowering statin drugs, such as lipitor (atorvastatin), does not lower the risk of pneumonia. That's the new finding from a study of more than 3,000 Group Health patients published online on...Mini-Stroke Can Mean Major One Within Hours
...uction." Clopidogrel and aspirin are both aimed at the clots that can cause a stroke by blocking a brain artery. Statins are drugs such as Crestor, lipitor and Zocor that lower blood cholesterol levels. Brain images can illustrate why risk of a recurrence might be highest in the hours after a TIA or m...Astellas Announces New Vice President of Marketing
...more than 18 years and last held the position of national sales director, Vista Rx. Most recently he was accountable for driving sales initiatives for lipitor and Caduet. Mr. Johnston earned his M.B.A. at Boston College and his undergraduate degree at Lafayette College . About Astellas Astellas P...Acetaminophen, Cholesterol Drugs May Help Fight Stroke
...y issue of Lancet Neurology . Prior studies have suggested that the use of cholesterol-lowering statins -- which include the blockbusters Crestor, lipitor and Zocor -- can cut the risk of stroke for certain patients. in the new study, French researchers reviewed 24 studies involving more than 165,000 ...More U.S. Kids Taking Diabetes, Blood Pressure Drugs
...ions, Liberman said. However, over the same period, prescriptions for cholesterol-lowering medications (which include statin drugs such as Crestor, lipitor and Zocor) dropped by almost 23 percent. The researchers speculate that this drop may have been due to controversy about prescribing these drugs to ch...Two New Imaging Studies Show Higher Dose Lipitor Stopped the Progression of Atherosclerosis
NEW ORLEANS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mar 26, 2007 - Pfizer said today that results from two new imaging trials showed that higher dose Lipitor stopped the progression of atherosclerosis in patients with coronary heart disease or familial hypercholesterolemia (FH). The trials, which were designed to invest...Statin therapy ineffective in breast cancer prevention
...he February issue of Cancer Prevention Research , a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research. Statins, sold under brand names like lipitor and Zocor, are primarily given to lower cholesterol and prevent heart disease, and prominent cardiologists almost universally agree that their use has...Patients can report statins' adverse effects on new web site
...uch drugs ?atorvastatin (Lipitor) and simvastatin (Zocor) ?were #1 and #2 best-selling drugs in the country in 2004, with 75 million prescriptions for lipitor alone. Although pharmaceutical companies report that side effects of statin drugs are rare, there are some patients who experience serious consequence...Hovione Buys Pfizer's Loughbeg API Facility
... it has agreed with Pfizer to acquire their Loughbeg Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (API) site in Ireland. This site manufactures intermediates for lipitor active pharmaceutical ingredient. The site has had a number of owners starting in 1984 with Angus Fine Chemicals, then Hickson & Welch, Wa...Line between big pharma, big biotech continues to blur
...1 billion or more) but the super-blockbuster drugs (drugs that sell $2 billion or more per year) and the mega-blockbuster drugs (the one drug, Pfizers lipitor for high cholesterol, sells more than $10 billion per year). Looking at sales of Big Pharma, though, isnt enough as it doesnt reveal the full pictu...The world's leading biotech companies
...d products, it may even face a decline as key drugs lose their patent life (imagine what a disappearing patent does to a $12 billion/year drug such as lipitor which probably supplies 20-25% of Pfizer's annual sales and 30-35%, or more, of its profits). T-minus 34 days to the Olympics of Biotech: BIO-2006 ...Big Pharma's continued hunger and search for new products
... Product/Company Disease Area Sales ($billions) % Growth 1. lipitor (Pfizer) Cholesterol Reduction $12.9 +6% 2. Plavix (Bristol-Myers Squ...are getting close to patent expiration in the coming years including Zocor, lipitor and others, and when this happens, you will see 80% or more of the revenue ...First half of 2006 roundup: Big Pharma trumps biotech
...most likely to $300 million to $600 million/year, or a sales (and profit) loss of $2.4 billion to $2.7 billion. Imagine what will happen with Pfizer's lipitor with last year's sales of $13 billion (granted this is worldwide and Pfizer's patent expiration in different parts of the world varies). More recen...