CLEVELAND, Ohio -- The Food and Drug Administration said Thursday that the chance of harm is low for anyone taking generic Lipitor recalled by an Indian company on Nov. 9 because of potential ...

On the cost side, the introduction of generic atorvastatin in 2011 significantly reduced its price. The average retail cost of the brand-name Lipitor was over $300 per month at its peak.

Health care providers and patients can identify the white colored tablets by the imprint RX12 on 10-mg tablets, RX828 on 20-mg tablets and RX829 on 40-mg tablets, the FDA said.

Learn about side effects and more of atorvastatin oral tablet. It's a prescription drug that improves cholesterol and lowers the risk of certain heart-related issues.

The back half of the drug name is the same for all drugs in a particular class — for instance, there are a whole raft of cholesterol-lowering drugs that end in -vastatin: atorvastatin (Lipitor ...