- Armand Rossetti | July 27, 2009 9:28 AM | West Palm Beach, FL
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FDA & Prescription Drugs
Some drugs have an extremely narrow therapeutic range and digoxin, the heart drug that is the active ingredient in Digitek, is one of them.
Digoxin is not a recent discovery; in fact in the late...
- Brenda Fulmer | April 21, 2009 9:34 AM | West Palm Beach, FL
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FDA & Prescription Drugs
Not even a year has passed since the massive recall of Digitek pills by Bertek/Mylan and Actavis, yet cardiac patients are facing yet another scare. On March 31, 2009, Caraco Pharmaceutical...
- Brenda Fulmer | May 08, 2008 3:39 PM | Pinellas, FL
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FDA & Prescription Drugs
The FDA and Actavis Totowa recently announced the recall of Digitek (digoxin) tablets due to manufacturing defects that caused the pills to contain excessive doses of the drug which can lead to toxic reactions, especially in patients with kidney problems.