Lipitor

• “Pfizer announced that in patients with established heart disease, Lipitor® (atorvastatin calcium) 80 mg not only significantly reduced the relative risk of suffering a first cardiovascular event by 19 percent compared to Lipitor 10 mg but also provided a sustained reduction in the risk of a subsequent second, third, fourth, and fifth cardiovascular event, according to a subanalysis of the five-year Treating to New Targets (TNT) study.”

  Health News from Medical News Today

• “The name Lipitor might sound like a Transformers robot to the average individual, but to the pharmaceuticals industry it means big business.”

  Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph

• “My favorite version of this theory is what I call the Lipitor Effect: if your daily diet includes 20 mg of the anti-cholesterol drug Lipitor, it can also include a pastrami sandwich.”

  Will the “Ten Commandments of Driving” Create a “Benedict Effect”? - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com

• “Revenue jumped 39% because of last year's $68 billion purchase of Wyeth and despite a double-digit percentage drop in Lipitor sales.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Pfizer Profit Declines 70% On Merger, Litigation Costs

• “Lipitor is just one example amoungst hundreds of similar items.”

  Negotiating Drug Prices, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty

• “Lipitor is the best selling cholesterol-lowering drug with $8.6 billion in sales in the USA last year.”

  Solo drug as good as cholesterol combo

• “The study found that for every 100 people given high doses of the statin Lipitor, there were about two fewer strokes and three to four fewer major heart problems than among those given dummy pills.”

  Medpundit

• “Another Coup for Lipitor: That miracle drug, Lipitor, is in the news again.”

  Medpundit

• “Lipitor is for chloresterol and I am controlling it at 160 - mid range.”

  Ankles and cobblestones

• “I keep wishing some self-righteous wacko pharmacist would decide that something like Lipitor is messing with god’s will/letting sinners off the hook, too, and refuse to dispense it.”

  Plan B: Educate pharmacists. Shouldn’t that have been Plan A? « A Bird’s Nest

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