The eDrugSearch Blog » Zetia /edsblog Helping Americans Buy Prescription Drugs Online from Canada Mon, 16 Aug 2010 16:22:34 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Top 25 prescription drug searches /edsblog/top-25-prescription-drug-searches/ /edsblog/top-25-prescription-drug-searches/#comments Thu, 18 Oct 2007 15:45:05 +0000 Cary Byrd /edsblog/top-25-prescription-drug-searches/ 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
9. Phentermine
10. Vytorin
11. Topamax
12. Meridia
13. Zoloft
14. Crestor
15. Xenical
16. Zetia
17. Prevacid
18. Lisinopril
19. Viagra
20. Plavix
21. Cialis
22. Singulair
23. Risperdal
24. Diovan
25. Casodex

The list isn’t a perfect reflection of the most popular drugs purchased online, largely because of Google. For a variety of reasons, eDrugSearch.com appears very high in the organic search results for some drugs, but not as high for others. This obviously skews our results.

With this caveat, however, we hope that over time our results will shed light on trends in online drug sales.

We plan to post our October results in the first week of November.

]]> /edsblog/top-25-prescription-drug-searches/feed/ 1 Would you like some Zetia sprinkled on your cannolies? /edsblog/would-you-like-some-zetia-sprinkled-on-your-cannolies/ /edsblog/would-you-like-some-zetia-sprinkled-on-your-cannolies/#comments Wed, 12 Sep 2007 14:39:12 +0000 Cary Byrd /edsblog/would-you-like-some-zetia-sprinkled-on-your-cannolies/ merck cannolis Would you like some Zetia sprinkled on your cannolies?

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]]> /edsblog/would-you-like-some-zetia-sprinkled-on-your-cannolies/feed/ 4 Lipitor approved for new uses /edsblog/lipitor-approved-for-new-uses/ /edsblog/lipitor-approved-for-new-uses/#comments Fri, 09 Mar 2007 21:43:34 +0000 Cary Byrd /edsblog/lipitor-approved-for-new-uses/ 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 attacks and strokes.

The expanded label for the world’s top-selling prescription drug will also now include its approval for use in reducing the risks of hospitalization for heart failure. Lipitor is the first cholesterol-lowering drug to win approval for reducing such risks.

The approval comes as a result of a five-year study, ‘”Treating to New Targets (TNT),” involving 10,000 patients with heart disease and elevated LDL levels which compared Lipitor at its lowest and highest doses. It was found that patients taking 80 mg of Lipitor had a significant 22% reduction in the risk of major cardiovascular events compared with patients taking 10 mg. It was also found that the patients on the higher dose of Lipitor had a significant 26% reduction in the risk of hospitalization for heart failure.

This should provide Pfizer an advantage in Lipitor’s competition with Zocor, Pravachol, Zetia, Vytorin and Crestor.

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