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Health Canada reminds women not to use ACE inhibitors during pregnancy
Ottawa - Health Canada is advising women not to use blood pressure medication known as ACE (angiotensin-converting enzyme) inhibitors during pregnancy due to the risk of birth defects. These drugs areused alone or with other...
ACE Inhibitors More Effective for Heart Patients with Reduced Kidney Function
Results from the PEACE–Prevention of Events With an ACE inhibitor–trial has found that treatment with ACE inhibitors, such as captopril, enalapril, lisinopril, and trandolapril*, appears to be more effective at reducing the risk...
FibroGen Reports Combinations of FG-3019 Plus ACEi and FG-3019 Plus ARB Prevented and Reversed Arterial Stiffness Significantly Better Than ACEi or ARB Alone in Preclinical Models of Diabetes
Washington--FibroGen, Inc. today announced that administration of FG-3019 alone, or in combination with angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor (ACEi) or angiotensin receptor blocker (ARB), was significantly better in preventing...
Drug warning for mothers-to-be
Doctors are likely to recommend that women planning to become pregnant stop taking a popular class of high blood pressure drugs that researchers have found may cause birth defects.
Brazil sees profit in frog slime
Fernando Katukina is chief of an indigenous tribe that lives largely without running water, electricity or links to the world outside this remote corner of the western Amazon.