MIAMI (CBS4) – Cheaper generic versions of the popular cholesterol lowering drug Lipitor will soon be hitting the market. The Food and Drug Administration only gives pharmaceutical companies exclusive ...

Some 8.7 million Americans take Lipitor for high cholesterol. Starting Wednesday, they might get a different-looking pill when they go to fill a prescription and pay much less for it. That's the day ...

Pfizer reportedly wants to sell non-prescription version of blockbuster drug. Aug. 4, 2011— -- Could the blockbuster cholesterol-lowering drug Lipitor soon be available without a prescription?

In A Nutshell Atorvastatin directly binds to muscle proteins — Scientists captured the first atomic-level images showing how ...

Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd. has recalled more than 40 lots of its generic version of the cholesterol-lowering drug Lipitor from the U.S. market after finding batches containing small glass particles.

High doses of the cholesterol-lowering drug Lipitor were no better at preventing major heart problems than regular doses of rival Zocor, according to the latest study on efforts to aggressively treat ...

Experts say the generic drug will be just as effective at half the cost. Nov. 29, 2011— -- Angus Hepburn, of Beacon, N.Y., has been taking Lipitor, a cholesterol-lowering drug, since 2009, after ...

India's largest maker of generic drugs won approval Wednesday to sell a generic version of cholesterol blockbuster Lipitor. The world's top-selling drug ever lost U.S. patent protection earlier in the ...

Ingesting glass does not lower your cholesterol, but patients taking Ranbaxy's generic version of Pfizer's blockbuster cholesterol-lowering drug Lipitor might be doing just that. Ranbaxy announced ...

A war brewing over Lipitor could affect your pocketbook whether or not you take the best-selling cholesterol-lowering pill. Last December, Pfizer, the world’s largest drug company, launched a coupon ...

Pfizer Inc PFE has agreed to pay $93 million to settle an antitrust lawsuit related to its cholesterol drug Lipitor. What Happened: The lawsuit, filed by wholesale drug distributors, accused Pfizer of ...