while lipitor's loss was tough for pfizer, it was a boon for generic drug makers. but in the coming year, far fewer brand-name drugs will come off patent. and as ruben ramirez reports, generic drug makers have been preparing for the slowdown. >> reporter: 2012 has been a boon for generic drug makers as 40 brand name drugs lost their patent protection, opening the door to what amounted to around $35 billion in sales. 2013 will be a different story, with only about half as many drugs scheduled to lose their patent protections. lipitor, pfizer's blockbuster cholesterol drug, was the biggest seller to lose patent protection this year. >> there are still individual product opportunities in 2013, but i think probably more importantly is we'll see in 2013, which we'll see more of going forward, is more alternative sources of growth to sort of bolster the traditional u.s. generic source of growth. >> reporter: 2013 could also see industry consolidation as some of the bigger players look to acquire smaller rivals to beef- up their product portfolios. >> it's going to be acq

pfizer is cutting jobs in order to cope with losses from its popular drug lipitor. bloomberg reports the pharmaceutical company will cut fs over broll 20 percent of its workforce -- or around 600 sales jobs. pfizer's lipitor has seen an increase in competition within the generic drug market. a spokesperson for pfizer did not confirm the report --but did say the company is making changes to fit the future needs of business. facebook gave investors something to "like" in 2012.. despite it's botched ipo day. because it was a heavy hitter.. ipo values this year, topped last year. with $40 billion dollars in 2012 ipo money compared to $35.5 billion in 2011. 138 companies made it onto the market so far compared with 134 in 2011. ipo pipeline for 2013 could be brisk. a number of companies are filing for public trading under the jobs act. mark zuckerberg is getting into the spirit of giving this holiday. the facebook founder will donate 500 million dollars in facebook stock to charity. thats about 18 million shares under current levels. the gift will go to a nonprofit -- th

i can't remember if i took my lipitor. a lot of patients can't remember. they put it in a special pill bottle. if i could track it and track the interactions and physiological responses it will help me. >> 9 9 cents, plastic thing with the days on it, now this fancy pill. when do you think it's going to be out? >> soon. but if you look at 2012, this was a fantastic year for medicine. not just from science standpoint but from technology. what this does is really once you take the pill and you have this chip in your system, now you're going to treat the patient from inside out rather that be outside in. that's the importance of this. you can get that information. now we check the vital signs, it can come to your iphone from the microchip to the sensor and the patch. you can communicate with your doctors. >> question. you take the pill, and i won't get specific, but it doesn't stay forever. >> that's a good point. the acid in the stomach is going to activate this. it's going to basically start sending the signal, it's good for about a week. after that it is b

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competition from generic drugs, particularly from the generic version of its cholesterol medication lipitorney may not have gotten the job he wanted when he lost the presidential election, but he's going back to work. romney will rejoin the board of marriott international. he's held the same position with the hotel chain twice before. romney's namesake is the company's founder john willard marriott. romney's first name is willard. his father and marriott were close friends. >>> and fannie mae and freddie mac will take a holiday break from foreclosing on homes. they will suspend evictions in the days leading up to christmas and will resume the process on january 2nd. jp morgan chase and citigroup have also announced a moratorium on evictions during the holidays. hopefully it will relieve a little stress for some people there. >> really good news. ashley, good to see you. thank you so much. >>> in sports, a showdown in d.c. and rg3 makes it happen against the giants. that's robert griffin iii. here's the rookie qb in the first. he loses the ball and it pops right into the hands of josh morgan

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in a clinical trial versus lipitor, crestor got more high-risk patients' bad cholesterol to a goal of00. [ female announcer ] crestor is not right for everyone. like people with liver disease or women who are nursing, pregnant or may become pregnant. tell your doctor about other medicines you're taking. call your doctor right away if you have muscle pain or weakness, feel unusually tired, have loss of appetite, upper belly pain, dark urine or yellowing of skin or eyes. these could be signs of rare but serious side effects. ♪ is your cholesterol at goal? talk to your doctor about crestor. [ female announcer ] if you can't afford your medication, astrazeneca may be able to help. tonight. it started as an argument on a new york subway platform, ended with a man losing his life on the tracks and a city asking how those on the scene allowed it to happen. the initial confrontation was caught on video. two men arguing there. moments after this was shot, witnesses say the man on the right pushed the other man into the tracks. the suspect ran from the station. now, police say they're now quest

in a clinical trial versus lipitor, crestor got more high-risk patients' bad cholesterol to a goal ofer 100. [ female announcer ] crestor is not right for everyone. like people with liver disease or women who are nursing, pregnant or may become pregnant. tell your doctor about other medicines yore taking. ll your doctoright away if you have muscle pain or weakness, feel unusually tired, have loss of appetite, upper belly pain, dark urine or yellowing of skin or eyes. these could be signs of rare but serious side effects. ♪ is your cholesterol at goal? talk to youdoctor about crestor. [ femalannouncer ] if you can't afford your medication, astrazeneca may be able to help. >> greta: ambassador susan rice has been taking heat and she and the president don't like it. who is to blame for rice's problems? the white house, the cia? rice herself. today in a tv interview president obama pointed fingers at us. >> republicans attacks against un ambassador susan rice boxed you in a corner, would it look like a sign of weakness if you didn't appoint her to secretary of state? >> i don't really spe

imagine having five heart attacks and you say, give them lipitor.nize it earlier. >> one of the big stories is drug shortages. know that's a story you're passionate about. >> yeah. since 2005 there's been a tripling of the number of drug shortages and this was the perfect example -- >> and cancer drug shortages. >> cancer drug shortages. we had babies, beautiful little alaina couldn't get the cancer drug. it turns out a lot of these drugs have become generic and there's a lot of complicated reasons why there was a shortage but it involves a happy story. there was a bill that was before congress for 15 months, bipartisan support, the president supported it, everybody wanted it, no specialty group didn't want it, and yet it took 15 months before it was passed. it was a bill to give the fda more power to regulate the shortage. now, the good news is that since it was passed in the last six months there's been a doubling of the notification that the fda gets of the shortages. when they get the notification, they can import drugs from abroad, they can cal

in a clinical trial versus lipitor, crestor got more high-risk patients' bad cholesterol to a goal ofstor is not right for everyone. like people with liver disease or women who are nursing, pregnant or may become pregnant. tell your doctor about other medicines you're taking. call your doctor right away if you have muscle pain or weakness, feel unusually tired, have loss of appetite, upper belly pain, dark urine or yellowing of skin or eyes. these could be signs of rare but serious side effects. ♪ is your cholesterol at goal? talk to your doctor about crestor. [ female announcer ] if you can't afford your medication, astrazeneca may be able to help. >>> time for a look at some of the other stories making headlines. isha joins us with the "360" bulletin. >>> the family of kasandra perkins, the woman shot and killed by nfl linebacker javon belcher is asking for privacy tonight. they discussed the murder-suicide with our affiliate kctv asking the public to keep them and the belcher family in their hearts. >>> crews in japan removing nine bodies from a collapsed tunnel outside of japan. p

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