(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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The FDA banned the Indian manufacturing plant where Ranbaxy Laboratories made its generic version of Lipitor last year after citing the plant for a list of problems. The year before, the drugmaker ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Ranbaxy, the often-troubled manufacturer of generic drugs, will temporarily stop manufacturing generic atorvastatin. On November 9, 2012 the company announced a voluntary recall of some lots of ...