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 [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Vytorin'
Lipitor: 50 million prescriptions can’t be wrong, right?
May 27th, 2008 · 7 Comments
Tags: Crestor · Lipitor · Prescription drugs · Prescriptions · Vytorin · Zocor
Top 25 prescription drug searches for March 2008
April 2nd, 2008 · No Comments
Here are the top 25 searches on eDrugSearch.com for the month of March, including searches for both medications and medical conditions, starting with the most popular search. eDrugSearch.com visitors have conducted more than five million searches since our launch in January 2007. 1. Viagra 2. Vytorin 3. Provigil 4. Cialis 5. Synvisc 6. Fosamax 7. [...]
Tags: Cialis · Prescriptions · Provigil · Viagra · Vytorin · Yasmin
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
Ad Age: Drug companies are begging for heightened regulation
January 21st, 2008 · No Comments
Double whammy for Big Pharma in Advertising Age today. First, a story headlined “Vytorin Ad Shame Taints Entire Marketing Industry” — an excerpt: Reports that [as] Merck & Co. and Schering-Plough Corp. kept under wraps for more than a year findings that Vytorin does not deliver results it spent more than $100 million advertising to [...]
Tags: Big Pharma · Pharmaceutical companies · 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
Top 25 prescription drug searches
October 18th, 2007 · 1 Comment
We thought it would be of interest to pharma bloggers and others to share a monthly list of the most-searched-for medications and medical conditions on eDrugSearch.com. Here are the top 25 searches for the month of September: 1. High Blood Pressure 2. Abilify 3. Provigil 4. Yasmin 5. Lipitor 6. Lamisil 7. Synthroid 8. Levitra [...]
Tags: Abilify · Crestor · eDrugSearch.com · Lamisil · Levitra · Lipitor · Meridia · Plavix · Prescription drugs · Prescriptions · Provigil · Synthroid · Topamax · Viagra · Vytorin · Xenical · Yasmin · Zetia · Zoloft
Lipitor approved for new uses
March 9th, 2007 · 1 Comment
Pfizer has received approval to sell the cholesterol-lowering drug Lipitor, its number-one seller, under five new categories. According to reports, Lipitor is now recommended for use in patients at high risk for cardiovascular conditions because of prior MI, heart surgery, or chest pain with evidence of atherosclerosis and to reduce the risk of non-fatal heart [...]
Tags: Crestor · Lipitor · Pfizer · Pravachol · Vytorin · Zetia · Zocor