Massive recall of cholesterol medication underway. How to check your prescriptions.

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

Atorvastatin's FDA Recall: How the Cholesterol Drug Helped US Fight Heart Disease

Atorvastatin, one of the world’s most widely prescribed cholesterol-lowering drugs, has played a major role in reducing heart ...

Atorvastatin recall may affect hundreds of thousands of patients – and reflects FDA’s troubles inspecting medicines manufactured overseas

Lowering LDL with atorvastatin has been shown to reduce cardiovascular events like heart attacks and strokes after a few years by 22%. When almost 30,000 people in a 2021 study stopped taking their ...

Most-prescribed drug in America recalled: How to tell if your medication is impacted

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.

FDA recall: Atorvastatin cholesterol drug from Ascend Laboratories

Several lots of the cholesterol medication atorvastatin were recalled after failed dissolution tests, according to the FDA.
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Cholesterol drug recall may affect hundreds of thousands of patients

If you take cholesterol-lowering drugs called statins, you may have noticed a flurry of news coverage since late October 2025 about an extensive recall of thousands of bottles of atorvastatin, the ...

141K bottles of cholesterol drug Atorvastatin Calcium Tablets recalled

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 ...
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Major Recall Issued For Top-Selling Cholesterol Drug In US

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 ...

The reason why the FDA is pulling the No. 1 cholesterol drug in the U.S. from the market

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has recalled thousands of bottles of atorvastatin, a treatment used to control cholesterol and prevent heart disease. This decision was made ...