Medical Xpress The study, "Clinical and Pharmacogenetic Predictors of Circulating Atorvastatin and Rosuvastatin Concentration in Routine Clinical Care," was published ...
Boing Boing The back half of the drug name is the same for all drugs in a particular class — for instance, there are a whole raft of cholesterol-lowering drugs that end in -vastatin: atorvastatin (Lipitor), fluvastatin (Lescol), rosuvastatin (Crestor ... and more »
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MedPage Today Richard Kim, MD, of the University of Western Ontario, and colleagues examined clinical and pharmacogenetic predictors of circulating atorvastatin and rosuvastatin (Crestor) concentrations in 299 patients. There was a 45-fold variation in statin ... and more »
PharmaTimes Moreover, despite the continuing generic erosion of Pfizer's Lipitor (atorvastatin) and the launch of generic versions of AstraZeneca/Shionogi's Crestor ( rosuvastatin ) and Merck's ezetimibe franchise - Zetia (ezetimibe), Vytorin (ezetimibe/simvastatin ...
The Week Magazine You may have noticed that every brand-name drug has a second name — for instance, Prozac® ( fluoxetine ). That second name, fluoxetine , is a name for the active ingredient, which is the same whatever the brand or generic form. And believe it or not ...
PharmaTimes The company noted a 31% decline in the antipsychotic Seroquel (quetiapine) franchise to $438 million, while sales of the antihypertensive Atacand ( candesartan ) sank 37% to $166 million. In oncology, Arimidex (anastrozole) fell 39% to $83 million and ... and more »
