Has a lawsuit been filed by users of the drug lipitor?

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Yes there is a lawsuit. For more information go to

http://www.lipitor-classaction.com/main.php?l1=FAQ

Good luck and I hope everything is ok with you

Lawsuit Attacks Pfizer's Lipitor Marketing
A federal lawsuit filed in New Jersey claims Pfizer Inc. defrauded a Teamsters pension fund by marketing Lipitor to people with a low risk of heart attacks.

Pfizer has been under increasing pressure recently because of off-label sales of Lipitor, the Wall Street Journal reported. While U.S. Food and Drug Administration regulations allow doctors to prescribe drugs for uses other than the approved ones, the manufacturers are barred from advertising or endorsing off-label uses.

In this case, the suit alleges, Pfizer encouraged the use of Lipitor for patients with high blood cholesterol but otherwise at low heart attack risk. In those cases, federal guidelines say that lifestyle changes like diet and exercise are preferred.

The U.S. Attorney's Office in Brooklyn, N.Y., is reportedly investigating Pfizer's Lipitor marketing and more lawsuits seem likely.
Pfizer's stock price dropped 1.5 percent when news of the suit became public, MarketWatch reported.

Here is a more recent one from June of this year. This one concerns the safety of the drug

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June 9, 2006 – Lawsuits filed this week claim that drug-maker Pfizer has failed to warn doctors and patients about serious possible side effects of the cholesterol-lowering drug.

The two lawsuits claim that Lipitor caused lasting, debilitating muscle and nerve problems -- including memory loss. Mark Jay Krum, a lawyer based in New York and Philadelphia, last Wednesday filed the suits in New York State Supreme Court on behalf of patients in New York and Atlanta.

Charles M. Wilson, a 60-year-old Atlanta man, says taking Lipitor damaged his nervous system. Three years after he stopped taking Lipitor, the suit says, his feet and hands burn, his balance is lost, and he suffers bouts of fatiguefatigue and memory loss.

The suit filed by Michael Mazzariello, a 47-year-old New Yorker, says his use of statins -- the family of cholesterol-lowering drugs to which Lipitor belongs -- left him with debilitating muscle damage and extensive memory loss.

"The complaint alleges that Pfizer promoted Lipitor as a safe drug with minimal health risks while failing to warn doctors and patients about Lipitor's more dangerous side effects," Krum tells WebMD. "No one is saying Lipitor does not work in reducing cholesterol. In most people it may be safe. But there are side effects such as those in the complaints filed on June 7. People are entitled to know."

With annual sales of about $12 billion, Lipitor is the world's best-selling medicine. It's the most popular of the cholesterol-lowering drugs called statins. Other statins include Zocor, Crestor, Mevacor, Pravachol, and Lescol. A statin drug called Baycol was removed from the market in 2001 because it caused far more cases of muscle damage than other members of its class.

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