What Doctors Don't Tell YouA heart drug is being tested as a better way of stopping pre term labour. The drug, nifedipine, is looking promising, early trials have found, and can postpone delivery much more effectively than ...
American doctors have been warned to stop prescribing the calcium-channel blocker nifedipine, used to treat high blood pressure, angina and heart attack. ...
The calcium blocker nifedipine used to treat high blood pressure has been singled out by the US's Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for increasing the risk of heart attack in some patients. ...
Nifedipine is a heart drug, marketed as Adalat by Bayer in the UK (Miles in the US), and as Procardia and XL by Pfizer in the US. It is used to treat relatively mild heart conditions, such as hig ...
Q An elderly colleague, aged 82, is experiencing symptoms that he feels may be attributable to his medication for high blood pressure. His daily regime is levothyroxine (150 mcg), aspirin (150 mcg), nifedipine (30 mg), alfuzocin (400 mcg) and...
