Aug. 2, 2005 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has alerted U.S. residents to the July 28 recall of a batch of counterfeit Lipitor (atorvastatin) 20-mg tablets sold in the U.K., according ...

If you have high cholesterol, there's a good chance your doctor has recommended statins to get your numbers back into a ...

It is in a class of drugs known as statins, which are used to prevent events associated with cardiovascular disease, such as stroke, heart attack, and angina. Atorvastatin works by reducing the amount ...

Lipitor can also raise the levels of HDL cholesterol good cholesterol in your blood. The drug is sometimes prescribed to people with an existing heart condition to lower their risk of experiencing a ...

Lipitor has no generic at this time. In terms of potency, 10mg of Lipitor is roughly equivalent to 20mg of Zocor and 20mg of Mevacor. Twenty mg of Lipitor is at least as potent as 40mg of Mevacor. So ...

(NEXSTAR) – Over 141,000 bottles of cholesterol medication have been recalled due to “failed dissolution specifications,” suggesting that the drugs did not pass a solubility test, or failed to ...

Ezetimibe/simvastatin: 10/10 mg, 10/20 mg, 10/40 mg, and 10/80 mg. Atorvastatin: 10 mg, 20 mg, 40 mg, and 80 mg. The primary end point of the study was the percent change from baseline to the end of ...

LIPTRUZET (ezetimibe and atorvastatin) tablets The FDA has approved Liptruzet, combination of ezetimibe and atorvastatin, for the treatment of elevated LDL cholesterol in patients with primary or ...

Last week Lipitor became a generic drug. Get used to saying “atorvastatin”, the generic name; it will be worth the effort. Lipitor is the greatest drug in history: $130 billion of cumulative revenue ...