Word: posicor
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Warning to high-blood-pressure patients: you must wait at least a week before switching from the hypertension drug Posicor--a calcium-channel blocker recalled earlier this month--to an alternative blocker, a new report cautions. Four patients have gone into shock--one died--after changing within 24 hours from Posicor to another drug. The quick switch caused blood pressure to plummet to dangerously low levels...
Just last week Roche Laboratories pulled its high-blood-pressure pill Posicor from the market because of potentially fatal interactions with 26 other medications, including such common cholesterol drugs as Mevacor and Zocor. If you are taking Posicor, however, don't just stop it on your own. Ask your doctor for a substitute prescription to keep your blood pressure safely under control...
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