The U.S. Food and Drug Administration warned that several popular drugs used to treat high blood pressure may be contaminated with carcinogenic chemicals. The agency found that the ingredient valsartan contains a chemical called N-nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA), a probable human carcinogen. As a result...
Torrent has recalled more than 300 lots of blood-pressure pills since the summer of 2018. It's among a dozen drugmakers that have recalled blood-pressure drugs made with active ingredients from suppliers in China and India.
If you’re taking a blood pressure medication that was recently recalled, do not stop taking it. The FDA says that “the risk of harm to someone’s health may be higher if one of these medications is stopped immediately without any alternative treatment.” So, if...
In the ongoing effort to determine the origins of a potentially cancer-causing impurity discovered in prescription blood pressure medications, the FDA has announced that Torrent Pharmaceuticals isexpanding its own voluntary recallof its popular heart drugs. The company’s Losartan tablets tested positive...
Last month, the FDA issued a voluntary recall of certain batches of the drug valsartan, which is used to treat high blood pressure and heart failure. The recalled drugs were manufactured by Zhejiang Huahai Pharmaceuticals in China and contain a chemical known as N-nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA), whi...
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Blood pressure is the force exerted by circulating blood on the walls of blood vessels. It constitutes one of the critically important signs of life or vital signs, which include heart rate,breathing, and temperature. Blood pressure is generated by the heart pumping blood into the arteries modifi...
High blood pressure (hypertension) means high pressure (tension) in the arteries. Treatment for high blood pressure include lifestyle modifications (alcohol, smoking, coffee, salt, diet, exercise), drugs and medications such as ACE inhibitors, angiotensin receptor blockers, beta blockers, diuretics,...
there’s a shortage in a drug made by fewer companies, she noted: “Given how many manufacturers of valsartan there are, Alembic did a pretty sharp price increase.” She counts 10 companies making the same ARB drugs whose products have not been recalled by the US Food and Drug ...