New York, NY - Artificial heart pioneer Dr Robert Jarvik is in hot water again over his celebrity endorsement of Lipitor—or, more accurately, cold water. Or is he? A television advertisement at the ...

Robert Jarvik, whose presence in ads for cholesterol medication Lipitor is no more, has released a statement of his own. The medical doctor and cardiac bioengineering pioneer who is president and CEO ...

WASHINGTON — When "diet and exercise isn't enough," Pfizer still wants consumers to ask their doctor about Lipitor — just not Dr. Robert Jarvik. On Monday, Pfizer took the doctor and inventor of the ...

Artificial heart inventor Robert Jarvik is now the center of a congressional investigation into his role as pitchman for the cholesterol-lowering drug Lipitor. In well known commercials, Jarvik says ...

Under criticism that its ads are misleading, Pfizer said Monday that it would cancel a long-running advertising campaign using artificial heart pioneer Robert Jarvik as a spokesman for its cholesterol ...

Pfizer is canceling advertisements for the cholesterol pill Lipitor featuring Robert Jarvik, the inventor of an artificial heart, as Congress is investigating whether the commercials are misleading.

television ads two years ago for the Pfizer cholesterol drug Lipitor. The ads have depicted him, among other outdoorsy pursuits, rowing a one-man racing shell swiftly across a mountain lake. "When ...

As someone who has had a heart attack, taken Lipitor for years – based solely on the advice of my longtime physician – and seen the TV commercial for the drug featuring Dr. Robert Jarvik, oh, maybe a ...

BOSTON (MarketWatch) -- Pfizer Inc. said Monday that it was voluntarily withdrawing its ads for its blockbuster cholesterol-lowering drug Lipitor featuring Dr. Robert Jarvik, creator of the Jarvik ...