SILVER SPRING, Md. -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is alerting healthcare professionals and patients of a voluntary recall of several drug products containing the active ingredient valsartan, ...

A common heart medication may contain a cancer-causing chemical, the FDA said. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is expanding a recall of a common heart medication because it may contain a ...

A recall for blood pressure drugs has been expanded. Torrent Pharmaceuticals says two of its blood pressure medications were found to have trace amounts of a potentially cancer-causing impurity. The ...

The tainted "sartan" crisis, which attracted extensive national media coverage last year, led to an abrupt but "biologically implausible" increase in valsartan-associated neoplasms reported by ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is expanding a recall of drug products containing the ingredient valsartan, which is used to treat high blood pressure and heart failure. The FDA first issued a ...

Aurobindo Pharma USA, Inc., has issued another voluntary recall of medications used to treat high blood pressure and heart failure due to the possible presence of a cancer-causing substance in the ...

The FDA approved a new generic of valsartan Feb. 12 to help relieve the shortage of the critical blood pressure drug that resulted from a string of recent recalls. Since last summer, several ...