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Pfizer takes aim in patent row
Manila :: Philippines | 1 day ago
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To the sales agents of the Philippine drugs company, the shirts were another gimmick to create interest in a new, but as yet unnamed, pharmaceutical product when they visited medical clinics and hospitals in the country. But Pfizer , the world’s biggest...
Tags: Pfizer, UniLab, Philippines, drugs companies, Lipitor, Atorvastatin, Manila, Health Medical Pharma, Pharmaceutical drug, Calcium channel blockers, Statins, Pharmacology, Business Finance, Pharmaceutical industry, Pharmaceutical companies
The Big Cholesterol Lie
Dr. Uffe Ravnskov, perhaps the world's foremost expert on the subject of Cholesterol wrote the book THE CHOLESTEROL MYTHS in which he says, "People with the highest cholesterol live the longest." That's right, and he also said, "There is no such...
Tags: Corrupt FDA, statins, Lipitor, cholesterol, Alzheimers disease, heart disease
Pfizer: Study finds Lipitor cuts heart-attack risk
New London :: CT :: USA | 11 months ago
Credibility Pfizer Inc. announced Wednesday the results of a study that appear to show its cholesterol drug Lipitor improves chances of avoiding a heart attack when compared to the Merck & Co. drug Zocor, known generically as simvastatin. Pfizer said an observational...
Tags: Lipitor
Pfizer resuming ads for Lipitor after controversy
Singapore :: Singapore | about 1 year ago
Credibility Lipitor generates more than $12 billion a year in revenue for New York -based Pfizer. Its patent expires in 2011, yet ads for the pill have been off the air since February. Pfizer had run frequent TV ads from late 2006 until then in which artificial heart...
Tags: Dr. Robert Jarvik, Lipitor, artificial heart
Pfizer wins Lipitor patent case against Ranbaxy!
Copenhagen :: Denmark | about 1 year ago
Credibility Global pharma giant Pfizer on Friday said that it has won a legal battle in Denmark in its ongoing patent litigation over anti-cholesterol drug, Lipitor with Ranbaxy Laboratories. Eastern Division of the High Court in Copenhagen, Denmark had ruled in...
Tags: Ranbaxy Laboratories, Pfizer, Denmark, Lipitor
Australian Full Federal Court Upholds Basic Lipitor Patent, Preventing Launch of Generic Ranbaxy Product
Sydney :: Australia | about 1 year ago
Credibility Pfizer Inc said today that the Australian Full Federal Court in Victoria has upheld on appeal the exclusivity of its basic patent covering atorvastatin, the active ingredient in Lipitor. The ruling, the culmination of a lawsuit filed in 2005 by generic...
Tags: generic, Ranbaxy Laboratories, Lipitor
Lipitor shows no significant Alzheimer's benefit
Tel Aviv :: Israel | about 1 year ago
Credibility Adding the popular cholesterol drug Lipitor to a commonly used Alzheimer's disease treatment had no overall significant impact on patients with the progressive neurodegenerative condition, Lipitor's maker Pfizer Inc said on Thursday. During an 18-month...
Tags: disease, study, Pfizer Inc., significant differences, Lipitor
Pfizer pulls Lipitor ads with heart expert Jarvik
Washington :: DC :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility Pfizer Inc said on Monday it was voluntarily withdrawing advertising for its Lipitor cholesterol drug featuring heart specialist Robert Jarvik, saying its ads led to "misimpressions." The ads involving Jarvik had come under scrutiny, including from
Tags: Dr. Robert Jarvik, artificial heart, lipitor ad, Dr. Jarvik, Lipitor, pull lipitor, Pfizer, Treasury Department, pfizer pull, cholesterol drug
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