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After Generics Enter Market, World's Top Selling Drug Sees Sales Plunge

AP | By LINDA A. JOHNSON | Posted 12.20.2011 | Business
Read More: Video, Ldl, Crestor, Generic-Pharmaceuticals, Watson Pharmaceuticals Inc., Lipitor, Bad Cholesterol, IMS Health, Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd., Target, Patent, Pfizer Inc., Business News

TRENTON, N.J. -- Sales of cholesterol blockbuster Lipitor plunged by half barely a week after the world's top-selling drug got its first U.S. generic ...

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Buyer Beware: Statins To Lower Cholesterol Are Not a Panacea

Christiane Northrup, MD | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: The Wisdom of Menopause, Crestor, Women's Bodies Women's Wisdom, Statins, Women's Health, Cholesterol, Healthy Lifestyle, Inflammation, Statin Drugs, Healthy Living News
Christiane Northrup, MD

I'm sure that many of you read about the study showing that Crestor, a popular statin drug manufactured by AstraZeneca, has been found to confer an ad...

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Study: Cholesterol Drug Lowers Blood Clot Risk

AP | MARILYNN MARCHIONE | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Cholestoral Drugs, Cholesterol, Medicine, Crestor, Blood Clots, Lipitor, Healthy Living News

ORLANDO, Fla. — Statin drugs, taken by millions of Americans to lower cholesterol and prevent heart disease, also can cut the risk of developing...

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Study: New Cholesterol Drug Cuts Risk Of Heart Attack, Stroke For Everyone

AP | MARILYNN MARCHIONE | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Cholesterol Drug Study, Chlosterol Drug, Crestor, Wider Cholesterol Drug Use, Healthy Living News

NEW ORLEANS — People with low cholesterol and no big risk for heart disease had dramatically lower rates of heart attacks, death and stroke if t...

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