FDA says Crestor ads are misleading; regulators say the pill is not necessarily best at lowering cholesterol

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The FDA has sent the makers of the cholesterol pill Crestor notice that the agency finds some ads for the drug misleading. Regulators say Crestor is not necessarily, as the ads claim, the best of its class of drugs known as statins. An FDA official notes that 80 milligrams of Crestor's main competitor Lipitor is just as effective as a 40 milligram dose of Crestor.

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