Blood pressure medication used in New York has been recalled because of a "foreign material" that can lead to some very serious health issues. Endo International announced that one of its companies, Par Pharmaceutical (Par), is expanding its voluntary recall of blood pressure medicine. Blood Pre...
If you have this medication, you should talk with your doctor before you stop taking it, according to the notice posted by the FDA.Untreated high blood pressurecan raise the risk of stroke, heart attack and other serious health issues or medical emergencies, so you should discuss the risks ...
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...
Torrent Pharmaceuticals is expanding a recall of blood-pressure medication possibly tainted with a cancer-causing chemical. The expansion is the fifth by Torrent involving widely used losartan potassium tablets sold nationwide at retailers including Walmart. Regulators first moved to pull heart drugs with...
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...
The FDA advises patients to contact their doctors and possibly set up an alternative medication routine before halting their use of the drug. The full list of recalled lotscan be found on the FDA’s recall page. If you have a bottle of these tablets that match the recalled lots, contact ...
(HealthDay)—One lot of high blood pressure medication is being recalled after a labeling mix-up, Accord Healthcare Inc. has announced.
A few months ago, the FDA notified the public of a voluntary recall of several valsartan-containing products from several drug companies. For more information about this recall, readCheck Your Medicine: Blood Pressure Rx Recalled. To keep yourself safe during this medication recall, the FDA recomm...
Aurobindo Pharma USA, Inc. is voluntarily recalling around 80 lots of blood pressure medicine that could contain a substance not intended to be in the product. The substance detected is called N-nitrosodiethylamine. It’s naturally found in certain foods, drinking water, air pollution and indust...
The symptoms of low blood pressureincludelightheadedness,dizziness, andfainting. These symptoms are most prominent when individuals go from the lying or sitting position to the standing position (orthostatic hypotension). Low blood pressure that causes an inadequate flow of blood to the body's organs...