In China, Promotion Trumps Patents
This article was originally published in PharmAsia News
Executive Summary
HONG KONG - In the late 1980s, Warner-Lambert researcher Bruce Roth came up with atorvastatin and changed the pharmaceutical market, and social and healthcare awareness factors in the West that made Lipitor the biggest blockbuster ever are starting to show up in China and other Asian countries. Cholesterol, heart attacks and the gamut of cardiovascular diseases are on the rise as diets grow richer, lifestyles more sedentary and smoking remains prevalent