Seeking Alpha The company's founder, Executive Chairman and Chief Scientific Officer, Roger S. Newton, Ph.D., FAHA, co-discovered the statin marketed as Lipitor ( atorvastatin calcium), the most prescribed LDL-C lowering therapy in the world and the best-selling drug ...
Times of India This was the first notification issued by the NPPA. According to the NPPA notification, prices of popular pain and fever medicine paracetamol will go down by nearly 40%, antibiotics (azithromycin) by 40%, cardiac drugs (losartan and atorvastatin ) by 45%. and more »
CBC.ca "Co-prescription of either clarithromycin or erythromycin with atorvastatin , simvastatin, or lovastatin was associated with an increased risk of hospital admiss...
WebMD Almost three-quarters of the statin users were taking atorvastatin (Lipitor). The other commonly used statins were simvastatin (Zocor) and lovastatin (Altoprev, Mevacor). Clarithromycin and erythromycin are often prescribed for respiratory illness such ... and more »
Sun-Sentinel Recently, the FDA ordered a drug company from India to recall its generic atorvastatin when small particles of glass were detected in the medication. Although this received a great deal of attention, the FDA has issued similar actions to U.S.-based ...
MedPage Today Average non-HDL cholesterol level dropped from about 250 to 180 mg/L after 6 months of treatment with atorvastatin but increased slightly in the placebo ...
NewsClick It is qquite possible that Ranbaxy lied and cooked up data in its hurry to get into the US market. Specifically, it had an interest in being the first generic to enter the US market for Atorvastatin (an anti-cholesterol drug sold under the brand name ... and more »
Counsel & Heal The shoppers asked for the generic versions of five best-selling drugs: Actos (pioglitazone), for diabetes; Lexapro (escitalopram), for depression; Lipitor ( atorvastatin ), for high cholesterol; Plavix (clopidogrel), a blood thinner; and Singulair ...
AARP News These rebates reduced the cost of Lipitor to less than the cost of the generic version of Lipitor (known as atorvastatin sodium) and in exchange, insurance plans and PBMs rejected atorvastatin claims for six months, effectively preventing pharmacists ...
OncLive Prevention of coronary and stroke events with atorvastatin in hypertensive patients who have average or lower-than-average cholesterol concentrations, in the Anglo-Scandinavian Cardiac Outcomes Trial—Lipid Lowering Arm (ASCOT-LLA): a multicentre ...
