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Reduction of LDL cholesterol Merck: $660.1 $876.5 $2,802.7 $4,381.7 $5,196.5 rizatriptan benzoate: Maxalt Migraine pain Merck: $529.2 $467.3 $406.4 $348.4 $309.9 finasteride: Propecia Hair loss Merck: $429.1 $405.4 $351.8 $291.9 $270.2 etoricoxib: Arcoxia Osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis Merck: $377.3 $329.1 $265.4 $218.2 sitagliptin ...
[113] [103] [109] [110] Lipitor was on the market by 1996. [111] [114] By 2003, Lipitor had become the best selling pharmaceutical in the United States. [107] From 1996 to 2012, under the trade name Lipitor, atorvastatin became the world's best-selling medication of all time, with more than $125 billion in sales over approximately 14.5 years.
In 2005, sales were estimated at US$18.7 billion in the United States. [11] The best-selling statin is atorvastatin, also known as Lipitor, which in 2003 became the best-selling pharmaceutical in history. [12] The manufacturer Pfizer reported sales of US$12.4 billion in 2008. [13]
Pfizer (NYS: PFE) used to sell Lipitor exclusively in the United States. And it was a huge component of the company's revenue and earnings. Honest. I swear. You certainly wouldn't know it from the ...
Cholesterol drugs Zetia and Vytorin together accounted for 10% of Merck's pharma sales last year. But while Zetia managed to recover from a sales plunge, the duo's end is still in sight. Big fall
Pfizer (NYS: PFE) has no intention of letting Lipitor sales go without a fight. As The Wall Street Journal reports, the drugmaker plans to use a variety of discounts and co-pay assistance programs ...
The discovery of HMG-CoA (3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-CoA) reductase inhibitors, called statins, was a breakthrough in the prevention of hypercholesterolemia and related diseases. Hypercholesterolemia is considered to be one of the major risk factors for atherosclerosis which often leads to cardiovascular, cerebrovascular and peripheral vascular ...
2018 sales (million USD) 2017 sales (million USD) 1 adalimumab: rheumatoid arthritis: Humira 19 936 18427 3 apixaban: anticoagulant: Eliquis 9872 7395 4 lenalidomide: multiple myeloma: Revlimid 9685 8187 5 nivolumab: oncology: Opdivo 7570 5763 6 pembrolizumab: oncology: Keytruda 7171 3809 7 etanercept: rheumatoid arthritis: Enbrel 7126 7885 8 ...