Norvasc, Amlodipine News

Mumbai: Indian pharma companies continue to be at the receiving end of tough quality scrutiny by drug regulators abroad, the latest being Jubilant Pharmaceuticals NV, the Belgium subsidiary of the Rs 3,500-crore Jubilant Organosys.

DRUG CHALLENGE: Combination drugs... Do you know what they contain? Match the names in Section I with the ingredients in Section II.

INTERNATIONAL DRUG house Pfizer could pay millions of dollars in cost and compensation to local distributors Medimpex and LASCO if it loses an appeal to quash a ruling made by the Supreme Court that its patented medication Amlodipine is invalid.

Clinical Trials / Drug Trials The US Food and Drug Administration has approved Exforge HCT , the only blood pressure treatment to combine three medications in a single pill.

JAMAICAN pharmaceutical company, Indies Pharma, is gearing up for a court battle with international drug-manufacturing giant, Pfizer-USA, over local distribution of hypertension medication used by thousands of Jamaicans living with the debilitating illness.

Generic Name: Amlodipine Common Brand Name: Norvasc Popularity: 14th most commonly prescribed drug between 2002 2007 Class: Calcium channel blocker Treatment Uses Mild to moderate hypertension , angina, ...

An 86-year-old woman with more than two years' history of progressive Alzheimer's dementia came to your office with her home health aide for a routine appointment.

Drugmaker Ethex Corporation is recalling dozens of drugs, including generic formulas of OxyContin, Toprol XL, and Norvasc, because of potential problems with manufacturing conditions.

Americans take way too many medications. They mix and match with barely a second thought.

Grapefruit season is here again, and with that comes a bushel of questions about interactions between grapefruit and prescription medications.

Calcium channel blockers, or calcium antagonists, treat a variety of conditions, such as high blood pressure, migraines and Raynaud's disease.

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Each year, 1.2 million Americans will have a heart attack and 700,000 will have a stroke.

Pfizer Inc.'s Norvasc, in combination with another drug, helped lower patients' risk of heart attack, stroke and death, giving doctors another first-line option to treat high blood pressure, a study found.

Kenneth Jamerson, M.D., Michael A. Weber, M.D., George L. Bakris, M.D., Bjrn Dahlf, M.D., Bertram Pitt, M.D., Victor Shi, M.D., Allen Hester, Ph.D., Jitendra Gupte, M.S., Marjorie Gatlin, M.D., Eric J. ...

A pill that contains two blood pressure drugs was more effective than a diuretic-based strategy in reducing the risk of serious cardiovascular problems and death in people with high blood pressure, according to ...

Why did the Allhat trial have so little impact ? That's a question that a recent NY Times story tried to answer.