Lipitor News

Pfizer to cut costs, expand in China - BusinessWeek

Pfizer Inc. says it plans to outsource more drug manufacturing, lower costs ahead of generic competition for its blockbuster cholesterol drug, Lipitor, ...

http://www.businessweek.com/ap/fi... | Posted: Wed Mar 05 10:03:19 -0500 2008

UPDATE 1-Pfizer eyes overseas relief as Lipitor cliff nears - Reuters

Most importantly, it is bracing for the US patent expiration, possibly by 2010, for Lipitor. The company badly needs new products to offset expected ...

Posted: Wed Mar 05 09:29:22 -0500 2008

Pfizer plans to ramp up outsourcing - CNNMoney.com

The pharmaceutical giant has downsized dramatically ahead of the patent loss for its cholesterol drug Lipitor. By Aaron Smith, CNNMoney.com staff writer ...

http://money.cnn.com/2008/03/05/n... | Posted: Wed Mar 05 09:43:08 -0500 2008

Dutch Lipitor Ruling Prevents Generic Launch Until 2011 - FDA news (subscription)

Although the Court of Appeal in The Hague, the Netherlands, ruled last week that Pfizer’s Lipitor enantiomer patent is invalid, the same court decided ...

http://fdanews.com/newsletter/art... | Posted: Tue Mar 04 14:19:57 -0500 2008

Pfizer eyes overseas relief as Lipitor cliff nears - Earthtimes

Most importantly, it is bracing for the US patent expiration, possibly by 2010, for Lipitor. The company badly needs new products to offset expected ...

http://www.earthtimes.org/article... | Posted: Wed Mar 05 09:37:12 -0500 2008

Can Pfizer Deliver a New Prescription? - Wall Street Journal

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Posted: Tue Mar 04 00:02:17 -0500 2008

Can Pfizer Deliver a New Prescription? - Wall Street Journal

In December 2006, the company lost torcetrapib, the cholesterol drug he was counting on to replace Lipitor, when a clinical trial of that medicine was ...

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1... | Posted: Tue Mar 04 00:02:17 -0500 2008

Drug Pitchmen: Actor, Doctor or Pfizer’s Option - New York Times

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Posted: Mon Mar 03 21:50:29 -0500 2008

Health conspiracies usually aren’t - ZDNet

So meet JaaJoe, a new right-wing blogger out to make his bones by going after Pfizer’s Lipitor. In a “three-part series” (of which two are now up) he calls ...

http://healthcare.zdnet.com/?p=76... | Posted: Mon Mar 03 15:02:02 -0500 2008