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 ...

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 ...

Lipitor (atorvastatin) and Crestor (rosuvastatin) are brand-name oral tablets. They’re both prescribed for some types of high cholesterol and to reduce the risk of serious cardiovascular problems in ...

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.

The cholesterol-lowering drug Lipitor-- the best-selling prescription drug in world history -- will be available as a generic drug beginning Nov. 30. Lipitor's generic name is atorvastatin. Two ...

Today, the U.S. patent expires on the Pfizer’s Lipitor, the best-selling drug of all time. The first generic versions will go for sale, marking the end of a brand that has dominated the drug industry, ...

Pfizer Inc's Lipitor and AstraZeneca's Crestor cholesterol drugs, taken at their highest dose, safely reduced artery-clogging plaque in heart patients, according to data from a clinical trial ...

Atorvastatin can be taken either in the morning or at night as long as you take it consistently. Atorvastatin has a long half-life, so it's effective no matter what time of day it's taken. Some types ...

Pfizer will resume DTC advertising for its blockbuster statin drug, Lipitor (atorvastatin calcium)–but this time the pitchman isn’t so famous. Pfizer took heat from federal regulators and the media ...