A healthy lifestyle is the first and most important way to win the battle against cholesterol, but for some it’s just not enough. Many who diet and exercise still find themselves in a fight against cholesterol, and prescription medication may be the way to best combat high cholesterol. Cholesterol medications help by decreasing your low-density [...]
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Cholesterol Medication Rundown
April 12th, 2010 · No Comments
Tags: Cholesterol · Crestor · Lipitor · Prescription drugs · Zocor
FDA Shoots Down New Combo Heart Drug
March 30th, 2010 · No Comments
Today in London the FDA decided to postpone approval of a new experimental heart drug, seeking more information about the new product. The drug called Certriad, combines AstraZeneca’s blockbuster cholesterol pill Crestor with Abbott Laboratories TriLipix. According to Rueters, The manufacturers said on Tuesday they had received a so-called “complete response letter” from the U.S. [...]
Tags: AstraZeneca · Crestor · Hypertension · Lipitor · Prescription drugs · Zocor
Save money on popular meds as they go generic in 2010
October 26th, 2009 · 3 Comments
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 [...]
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Tags: Alli · Buy prescriptions online · Canadian drugs · Drug costs · Drug reimportation · eDrugSearch.com · Generic drugs · Lipitor · Low-cost drugs · Obesity · Online pharmacies · Prescription drugs · Valtrex · Xenical
Crestor, Lipitor, or Zocor – Which statin is right for you?
September 3rd, 2009 · 61 Comments
A diagnosis of high cholesterol can be intimidating, but there is a lot you can do to control this condition. In addition to modifying your diet and upping your exercise, the addition of a HMG-CoA Reductase Inhibitor — a class of drugs commonly called “statins” — can safely and effectively lower your cholesterol. (HMG-CoA Reductase [...]
Tags: AstraZeneca · Buy prescriptions online · Cholesterol · Lipitor · Merck · Pfizer · Prescription drugs · Prescriptions · Zocor
“C-reactive protein”: soon, the world will know your name (thanks to Crestor)
November 13th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Yeah, I know: you’ve never heard of “C-reactive protein” (CRP) as an indicator of heart disease, just like you’d never heard of restless leg syndrome, irritable bowel syndrome or a host of other ailments before they were heralded in pharmaceutical company commercials 24-7. But soon, you’ll know all about C-reactive protein — and why if [...]
Tags: Cholesterol · Crestor · Drug costs · Prescription drugs
Lipitor: 50 million prescriptions can’t be wrong, right?
May 27th, 2008 · 7 Comments
Lipitor was the most frequently prescribed brand-name drug in the United States last year, with 50 million prescriptions being filled. Vytorin was right up there, with 20 million. Add in all the other statins and you’re up to an amazing 150 million. As you might expect, we’ve had a fair amount of discussion in the [...]
Tags: Crestor · Lipitor · Prescription drugs · Prescriptions · Vytorin · Zocor
Drug commercial parodies — a roundup
April 26th, 2008 · No Comments
As you know, we like to post links to parodies of pharmaceutical commercials. Rather than publish these individually, though, I thought I’d provide all these links in a single roundup post. Here are some popular parodies of current drug ads — one for each drug. (Be warned that some of them are a little off-color.) [...]
Tags: Cialis · Drug commercial parodies · Lipitor · Mirapex · Viagra · Zoloft
Merck and Schering-Plough: partners in slime
January 23rd, 2008 · 1 Comment
Oh what fun it is to cover Big Pharma. First we get the Wall Street Journal crediting Peter Rost and BrandweekNRX for breaking an insider trading scandal at Schering-Plough. Then we get Merck and Schering-Plough pulling their popular “two sources of cholesterol” commercials from television because Vytorin apparently does not reduce the buildup of fatty [...]
Tags: Cholesterol · Merck · Schering-Plough · Vytorin
Top 25 prescription medication searches for December 2007
January 17th, 2008 · 2 Comments
Here are the top 25 drug and medical condition searches on eDrugSearch.com for the month of December: 1. Accupril 2. Provigil 3. Viagra 4. Combivent 5. Acyclovir 6. Phentermine 7. Statins 8. Acne 9. Yasmin 10. Plavix 11. Lipitor 12. Crestor 13. Anxiety 14. Synthroid 15. Anaphylaxis 16. Valtrex 17. Topamax 18. Vytorin 19. Remeron [...]
Tags: Abilify · Accupril · Acne · Acyclovir · eDrugSearch.com · Lipitor · Plavix · Provigil · Strattera · Vytorin · Yasmin · Zyprexa
Lipitor ads: Worse lip-synching than Britney Spears?
November 30th, 2007 · 3 Comments
For about a year and half now, Dr. Robert Jarvik, inventor of the artificial heart, has been a paid endorser for the cholesterol-lowering drug Lipitor. Pfizer keeps using Jarvik despite his being branded a “fop” who goes over like a lead balloon by the all-powerful John Mack. He’s also been called “Gollum-y” by Dr. Michael [...]
Tags: Lipitor · Pfizer · Pharmaceutical marketing