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

More than 140,000 bottles of a popular drug commonly prescribed to reduce cholesterol have been recalled for a defect that ...

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 ...

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

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

Atorvastatin, one of the world’s most widely prescribed cholesterol-lowering drugs, has played a major role in reducing heart disease rates in the United States. By blocking an enzyme responsible for ...

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 ...

Cholesterol disorders affect millions of people globally and are among the leading risk factors for cardiovascular diseases, including heart attack and stroke. Statins are the first-line therapy for ...

This article originally appeared on The Conversation. If you take cholesterol-lowering drugs called statins, you may have noticed a flurry of news coverage since late October 2025 about an extensive ...