Legacy Pharmaceutical Packaging will recall one more lot of the heart and blood pressure drug losartan sent to Kroger Co. pharmacies because the drug contained a possible carcinogen. Legacy ...

Drug companies recalled hundreds of lots of the commonly-prescribed blood pressure and heart medications valsartan, losartan and irbesartan — alone or combined with other drugs — after testing ...

Torrent Pharmaceuticals Limited has again expanded a recall of its blood pressure medication over concerns the tablets contain small amounts of a cancer-causing ingredient.

Losartan Potassium Hydrochlorothiazide, 100mg/12.5mg, 90-count, lot Nos. BX35C020 and BX35C049 Losartan Potassium Hydrochlorothiazide, 100mg/12.5mg, 1000-count, lot Nos. BX35C022 and BX35C023 ...

One lot of Losartan tablets, used to treat high blood pressure, has been recalled by Sandoz because it includes “a trace amount” of N-nitrosodiethylamine, commonly referred to as NDEA.

This articles discusses the findings of a LIFE substudy in the context of the debate about the use of angiotensin-receptor blockers vs beta-blockers for the prevention of new-onset AF.

More information: Michael A. Puskarich et al, A multi-center phase II randomized clinical trial of losartan on symptomatic outpatients with COVID-19, EClinicalMedicine (2021).DOI: 10.1016/j.eclinm ...

From January 2007 through February 2011, a total of 21 clinical centers enrolled 608 participants, 6 months to 25 years of age (mean [±SD] age, 11.5±6.5 years in the atenolol group and 11.0±6.2 ...

In the losartan group, five (6%) of 86 patients with diabetes and atrial fibrillation died of sudden cardiac death during the trial, compared with nine (2%) of 500 patients without atrial ...

Losartan reduced the rate of decline in renal function, as assessed by the reciprocal of the serum creatinine concentration, by 18 percent (median slope, –0.056 dl per milligram per year in the ...