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• Pfizer Pfumes Over Generic Lipitor In The Phillipines

  
  Pharmalot — Authority: 582
  Patent disputes are hardly out of the ordinary, but the big drugmaker is locked in an interesting battle in this SouthEast Asian nation, where UniLab UniLab is importing and selling a generic version of the best-selling cholesterol drug. The fight centers on a 1995 patent, but the wider context is the cost of ...
  3 days ago

• Chewing the fat? Chewy Lipitor goes for paediatric extension

  
  The SPC blog — Authority: 454
  According to Trading Markets , Pfizer Inc said today that it has submitted paediatric data for Lipitor (atorvastatin) to the European Medicines Agency (EMEA), after the EMEA concluded that Pfizers programme studying the use of Lipitor in children with high cholesterol complied with its criteria. This submission ...
  1 week ago

• Popular Cholesterol Drugs Shown Harmful and Ineffective

  
  Baby Boomer Advisor Club|Baby Boomer Health and News — Authority: 441
  Popular Cholesterol Drugs Shown Harmful and Ineffective and very expensive. So, who is taking them? I would say that the majority of users are Baby Boomers. A recent study raises fresh concerns about Zetia and its kissing cousin, Vytorin. These drugs that are supposed to lower cholesterol, are still taken by ...
  1 week ago

• NicOx Reports Positive Data for Cholesterol Drug

  
  OneMedPlace — Authority: 419
  NicOx announced that NCX 6560, its drug candidate for high cholesterol, met its primary and secondary endpoints in a Phase Ib man-in study.  The drug demonstrated top-line safety and tolerability, along with cholesterol-lowering effects, at all tested doses.  NCX 6560 was tested against a placebo and Pfizer ...
  2 weeks ago

• Aileron’s New Class of Drugs Shown to Get Inside Cells to Block Prime Cancer Target

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 703
  Biotech , cancer , Drugs Luke Timmerman wrote: Cambridge, MA-based Aileron Therapeutics has bet the company on the idea that it has discovered a whole new class of drugs that, like RNA interference, can hit targets in the body that are beyond the reach of conventional chemical compounds and biotech ...
  2 weeks ago

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  3 weeks ago

• FDA Rejects Cholesterol Drug Application

  
  EmpowHer.com - Site Activity Feed — Authority: 544
  An application for a new cholesterol pill that combines Lipitor and Zetia has been rejected by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration because it wants more information about the manufacturing and stability of the combination drug. read more
  3 weeks ago

• FDA Bounces Merck Bid To Combine Lipitor & Zetia

  
  Pharmalot — Authority: 582
  What a pair? Not according to the FDA. This sort of thing doesn’t happen to Merck every day, but the agency refused to accept its application to turn Pfizer’s Lipitor and Zetia, the cholesterol pill it sells with Schering-Plough, into a combination medicine, according to a filing with the US Securities and ...
  3 weeks ago

• Healthcare amendment would delay access to “generic” versions of life-saving biologics

  
  The eDrugSearch Blog — Authority: 100
  Healthcare reform isn’t just about the public option and paying for doctor’s visits — it’s also about equal, affordable access to life-saving medications for all Americans. That’s why many Big Pharma watchdogs are so disappointed with a recent amendment slipped into healthcare legislation that proposes ...
  3 weeks ago

• FDA won’t accept Merck’s application for new drug (AP)

  
  Blogger — Authority: 168
  AP – U.S. regulators have refused to accept drugmaker Merck & Co.’s application for a new, combination cholesterol pill that includes rival Pfizer’s Lipitor, the world’s top-selling drug. View original post here:  (AP)"> (AP)">FDA won’t accept Merck’s application for new drug ...
  3 weeks ago

• FDA won’t accept Merck’s application for new drug (AP)

  
  Relevant News — Authority: 178
  AP – U.S. regulators won’t accept drugmaker Merck’s application for a new combination cholesterol pill that includes rival Pfizer’s Lipitor, the world’s top-selling drug. More here:  (AP)"> (AP)">FDA won’t accept Merck’s application for new drug (AP)
  3 weeks ago

• Can Cholesterol Pills Really Prevent Flu Deaths?

  
  Pharmalot — Authority: 582
  That’s what some researchers are suggesting. “Statins may have a role in reducing mortality from influenza, but our findings do not justify broader use of statins without confirming these findings in the setting of randomized controlled trials,” study author Dr. Ann Thomas, from the Emerging Infections Program ...
  4 weeks ago

• Lipitor and Zocor AND the flu

  
  Cold Fusion Guy — Authority: 140
  Cholesterol drugs may improve flu survival Excerpt: A new treatment for swine flu may already be on pharmacy shelves — cholesterol-lowering statin drugs like Lipitor and Zocor. A large study found that people who were taking these drugs when they caught seasonal flu and had to be hospitalized were twice as ...
  4 weeks ago

• Save money on popular meds as they go generic in 2010

  
  The eDrugSearch Blog — Authority: 100
  We’re nearing the end of the year, and many people are already in open enrollment for next year’s health coverage, which means it is a great time to plan ahead for your 2010 drug expenditures. No, you can’t know every medication you are going to need, but if you are on a popular, patented maintenance drug such ...
  4 weeks ago

• Could it be the oatmeal?

  
  JUST ME — Authority: 433
  For over three years after his coronary bypass, Cliff took one 40-mg Lipitor tablet a day. His cholesterol numbers were great.Three months ago his quarterly blood work showed that his cholesterol was too low. He was told to cut his tables in half, so for three months hes take 20 mg daily.This morning he received a ...
  5 weeks ago

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