News tagged with 'Atorvastatin'

Pfizer pulled ads featuring Robert Jarvik six months ago after a Congressional investigation began into false and misleading advertising by the drug industry. Now actual patients will be used and expect to see more direct-to-customer ads for symptoms that don't have to spend precious ad time on the side effects of specific drugs. 

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today announced that Albers Medical Distributors, Inc., has voluntarily recalled three lots of 90-count bottles of the cholesterol-lowering drug Lipitor and is warning healthcare providers and others that these three lots of counterfeit Lipitor represent a potentially significant

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has asked Pfizer Inc. to immediately pull all magazine advertisements that suggest the company's cholesterol-lowering medication, Lipitor, causes fewer side effects than the drug's competitors. According to the FDA, recent advertisements appearing in magazines such as Reader

Pfizer, Inc., a leader in drug manufacturing, today dismissed any concerns raised by Bayer AG's voluntary recall of Baycol. Baycol, a cholesterol-lowering drug and part of a class of medications known as statins, was recalled after reports of over 50 deaths caused by the drug. Recently, Pfizer representatives brushed