Key takeaways: BiDil (isosorbide dinitrate/hydralazine) is the first FDA-approved medication for a single racial group — Black people with heart failure. But unlike isosorbide dinitrate and hydralazine, the two medications it’s made up of, there’s no generic version, so it can be expensive. When taken with other medications for heart failure, BiDil has been shown...
Two more Chinese drugmakers have announced that a blood-pressure medication they exported to Taiwan contained a potentially cancer-causing impurity, a month after the same problem at another Chinese manufacturer prompted a global recall. Tianyu Pharm and Rundu Pharma said batches of valsartan, an active ingredient widely used in medications for high blood pressure and congestive heart failure, contained...
