Generic Lipitor

Drug Giant's Profit Plunges After Introduction of Generic Lipitor

AP | LINDA A. JOHNSON | Posted 04.01.2012

Pfizer Inc.'s fourth-quarter profit fell by half because it sold less Lipitor, the cholesterol fighter that's the biggest drug ever to go off patent, ...

Pfizer Maneuvers To Keep Patients On Lipitor

AP | By LINDA A. JOHNSON | Posted 01.29.2012

TRENTON, N.J. -- Lipitor is so valuable that Pfizer is practically paying people to keep taking its blockbuster cholesterol medicine after generic com...

Drug Prices To Plummet By Next Year

AP/Huffington Post | By LINDA A. JOHNSON | Posted 01.10.2012

(Associated Press) -- The cost of prescription medicines used by millions of people every day is about to plummet. The next 14 months will bring ge...

Pfizer Delays Generic Lipitor Release Until 2011

Bloomberg | Susan Decker and Shannon Pettypiece | Posted 05.25.2011

Pfizer Inc. and India's Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd. agreed to keep copies of the cholesterol pill Lipitor off the U.S. market an extra 20 months, a move...