FDA Recalls Half a Million Bottles of Blood Pressure Drug
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The latest drug to face a recall is prazosine, a drug used by millions of Americans who have high blood pressure. The Federal Drug Administration said more than 580,000 bottles of the blood pressure medication are being recalled over concerns that the drug may have been contaminated with a cancer-causing chemical.
Eight lots of a certain blood pressure medication have been recalled. That's after testing showed it contained trace amounts of a cancer-causing material. Prinston Pharmaceuticals announced one lot of Irbesartan tablets and seven lots of Irbesartan HCTZ ...
An older Black man takes his blood pressure (Photo credit: Shutterstock.com / Prostock-studio) Your doctor prescribed blood pressure medication to protect your heart, but what happens when the cure starts causing problems of its own? While these ...
KVK-Tech, Inc. found something that didn’t belong among the betaxolol tablets that the company was packaging to be delivered around the country: a single 5 mg oxycodone HCl tablet. (Photo: Getty) This isn’t quite like finding a single curly fry among ...
You might be doing everything right, popping your tablets, eating “healthy,” cutting down on salt, and yet your BP monitor tells a different story. Here’s a secret most people overlook: sometimes, it’s not your medicine that’s failing you.