Several lots of the cholesterol medication atorvastatin were recalled after failed dissolution tests, according to the FDA.

More than 140,000 bottles of a popular drug commonly prescribed to reduce cholesterol have been recalled for a defect that could make the medication less effective.

On Oct. 10, the FDA classified the recalled prescription medication as a Class II recall. The risk classification from the ...

The Food and Drug Administration recalled hundreds of thousands of bottles of the cholesterol drug Atorvastatin Calcium Tablets. The FDA said that nearly 142,000 bottles were recalled because of ...

In September 2025, a sweeping recall of atorvastatin—the nation's most-prescribed cholesterol-lowering drug—sent shockwaves ...

The recall includes 141,984 bottles of the medication, which is the generic form of Lipitor, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The recall affects the 10 mg doses in 90-count, ...

A drug taken daily by millions of Americans has been recalled nationwide after federal regulators said it failed quality testing. The recall affects more than 141,000 bottles of Atorvastatin Calcium ...

A Philadelphia judge has declined to certify as a nationwide class those Rite Aid customers who purchased what may have been counterfeit Lipitor in 2003. Judge Mark I. Bernstein found that the ...

It’s easy to put a bottle of prescription pills in the medicine cabinet and forget about what's on the label — until something like a recall jolts you into paying attention. Yet medication and medical ...

TRENTON, N.J. -- Lipitor, the best-selling drug in the history of pharmaceuticals, is the blockbuster that almost wasn't. When it was in development, the cholesterol-lowering medicine was viewed as ...

More than 141,000 bottles of a common cholesterol medication distributed nationwide have been recalled, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.