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More than 580,000 bottles of blood pressure medication recalled |

Over half a million bottles of prazosin hydrochloride, a blood pressure medication, have been voluntarily recalled by Teva Pharmaceuticals USA due to the presence of a potential cancer-causing chemical exceeding safe limits. The FDA classified this as a Class II risk, meaning adverse health consequences are temporary or medically reversible, with serious risks being remote….

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5 side effects of blood pressure medication and how to deal with them

Hypertension is sometimes referred to as the “silent killer”, because it usually does not exhibit any symptoms until it leads to major complications such as stroke, heart attack, or kidney damage. Drugs are a mainstay of therapy, maintaining the blood pressure of millions across the world. Yet, antihypertensives (BP medications), similar to all medications, have…

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