Medical Xpress: PHYSorg news tagged with: cholesterol drugs http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Regional anesthesia technique significantly improves outcomes of hip and knee replacement A highly underutilized anesthesia technique called neuraxial anesthesia, also known as spinal or epidural anesthesia, improves outcomes in patients undergoing hip or knee replacement, according to a new study by researchers at Hospital for Special Surgery. The study, which appears in the May issue of the journal Anesthesiology, found that neuraxial anesthesia, a type of regional anesthesia, reduced morbidity, mortality, length of hospital stay and costs when compared with general anesthesia. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-regional-anesthesia-technique-significantly-outcomes.html Surgery Wed, 01 May 2013 00:00:07 EST news286563849 With new generic rivals, Lipitor's sales halved Sales of cholesterol blockbuster Lipitor plunged by half barely a week after the world's top-selling drug got its first U.S. generic competition, new data show. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-rivals-lipitor-sales-halved.html Medications Tue, 20 Dec 2011 05:00:02 EST news243578929 US approves India's Ranbaxy to make generic Lipitor Indian pharmaceutical giant Ranbaxy won US regulatory approval to make the first generic version of cholesterol lowering drug Lipitor, a Pfizer product whose patent expired Wednesday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-india-ranbaxy-lipitor.html Medications Thu, 01 Dec 2011 02:11:07 EST news241927215 Pfizer's blockbuster drug Lipitor goes generic Pfizer's patent on the best-selling drug of all-time, the cholesterol-lowering medication Lipitor, expired on Wednesday, opening the path to generic competitors for America's most popular medication. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-pfizer-blockbuster-drug-lipitor.html Medications Wed, 30 Nov 2011 13:31:46 EST news241882296 MRIs could become powerful tools for monitoring cholesteral therapy MRI scanning could become a powerful new tool for assessing how well cholesterol drugs are working, according to Loyola University Health System cardiologist Binh An P. Phan, MD. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-mris-powerful-tools-cholesteral-therapy.html Medical research Fri, 14 Oct 2011 12:52:03 EST news237815325 FDA panel to weigh revoking key use of Abbott drug (AP) -- A panel of advisers to the Food and Drug Administration will consider this week whether to revoke a key indication from Abbott's blockbuster cholesterol drug Trilipix. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-fda-panel-revoking-key-abbott.html Medications Tue, 17 May 2011 13:15:45 EST news224856838