It's a drug used by nearly half of seniors to lower heart risk, and a lower-cost alternative to a widely used brand name.

Two new generic brands of cholesterol-lowering medication threaten sales to Pfizer's number one selling drug — Lipitor. Good news? More people... Medication used for lowering cholesterol should also ...

TORONTO/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Apotex Inc said on Wednesday it would immediately launch in Canada a copycat form of Pfizer Inc's blockbuster Lipitor cholesterol fighter, and Pfizer vowed to fight back ...

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 ...

India's largest maker of generic drugs won approval Wednesday to sell a generic version of cholesterol blockbuster Lipitor. The world's top-selling drug ever lost U.S. patent protection earlier in the ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - For people with coronary artery disease, treatment with high doses of Lipitor (generic name, atorvastatin) may reduce their odds of having to be hospitalized for heart ...

High doses of the cholesterol-lowering drug Lipitor were no better at preventing major heart problems than regular doses of rival Zocor, according to the latest study on efforts to aggressively treat ...

How the influx of generics is bad for drug makers but good for you. July 25, 2011— -- intro: Ten of the world's top-selling prescription drugs are about to get cheaper. Over the next 17 months, ...

Sales of the blockbuster cholesterol fighter Lipitor plunged by half barely a week after the world's top-selling drug got its first generic competition in the U.S., new data show. That's despite an ...