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 […]
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Lipitor: 50 million prescriptions can’t be wrong, right?
May 27th, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: Crestor · Lipitor · Prescription drugs · Prescriptions · Vytorin · Zocor
Splitting pills slashes drug costs
June 22nd, 2007 · 2 Comments
MSN has a helpful article on saving money on your prescription medications by splitting pills:
In pill splitting, patients cut larger-dose tablets in half to double the amount of smaller-dose pills they receive in a single prescription — for example, dividing 40-milligram tablets to create twice as many 20-milligram doses for the same price. And since […]
Tags: Healthcare solutions · Lipitor · Prescription drugs · Zocor
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 […]
Tags: Crestor · Lipitor · Pfizer · Pravachol · Vytorin · Zetia · Zocor
It’s dangerous that so many Americans can’t afford prescription drugs
March 3rd, 2007 · 1 Comment
A study published in a special issue of The American Journal of Managed Care has found that the higher a consumer’s out-of-pocket prescription drug expenses, the less likely the consumer is to take needed medications — in particular, cholesterol-lowering medications such as Lipitor and Zocor.
According to the news release from Thomson Medstat:
Researchers analyzed the healthcare […]
Tags: Lipitor · Prescription drugs · Zocor · eDrugSearch.com
More companies to produce generic Zocor
January 14th, 2007 · No Comments
Although the FDA approved the production of a generic version of Zocor in June 2006 by both Teva Pharmaceutical and Ranbaxy Laboratories, prices for the drug have dropped less than 10 percent since then. The recent approval of six more companies to sell generic Zocor should change that.
Analysts expect prices to drop as much […]
Tags: Generic drugs · Merck · Zocor
