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Top 25 prescription drug searches

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We thought it would be of interest to pharma bloggers and others to share a monthly list of the most-searched-for medications and medical conditions on eDrugSearch.com. Here are the top 25 searches for the month of September:

1. High Blood Pressure
2. Abilify
3. Provigil
4. Yasmin

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Lipitor sales take a nosedive; Pfizer stock follows

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Pfizer took a pounding in the stock market today after announcing poor earnings. The drug giant blamed increased competition from generics and lower than anticipated earnings from Lipitor, it’s bread-and-butter brand. According to Reuters,

The world’s biggest drug maker, whose shares fell more than 3 percent in morning trading, said it earned [...]

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Splitting pills slashes drug costs

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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 [...]

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Lipitor approved for new uses

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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 [...]

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It’s dangerous that so many Americans can’t afford prescription drugs

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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:

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More companies to produce generic Zocor

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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 [...]

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Do Big Pharma TV ads make you sick?

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Bob Hill of the Louisville Courier-Journal describes New Year’s Day in front of his television set:

Here comes Dr. Robert Jarvik … selling Lipitor to lower your cholesterol. The guy looks good. I’m with him all the way, even through the disclaimer part that suggests Lipitor should not be used if you have [...]

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Generics will soon be nipping at Lipitor’s heels

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From Reuters:

Pfizer Inc. is bracing for cheap competition to its biggest-selling product, the cholesterol drug Lipitor, a further worry for investors already reeling from the failure of its most important experimental medication. Last week, a raft of generic drugmakers announced that they had received U.S. approval to sell cheap versions of Merck [...]

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