Digitek Digoxin double thickness pill overdose
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Mark & Associates, P.C. is currently representing victims of Digitek/digoxin overdose or toxicity due to pills containing twice the normal dose of active ingredient. Digitek, sold under Bertek and UDL labels, and also known as Cardoxin, Lanoxicaps or Lanoxin, was recalled in a Class I nationwide recall announced April 25, 2008. Actavis Totowa LLC (formerly known as Amide Pharmaceutical, Inc.), manufactures Digitek for distributors Mylan Pharmaceuticals Inc. and UDL Laboratories. Digitek is prescribed to treat heart failure and irregular heartbeat (arrhythmia). Tablets were sold with double the thickness as typical tablets, and it is suspected that these pills contained double…Continue » Posted in Dangerous Drugs