A manufacturer of digoxin tablets has issued a recall notice over concerns that the pills could contain an improper dose of the heart medication. Caraco Pharmaceutical Laboratories issued the digoxin recall after learning that the tablets may contain too much or too little of the medication.
The Food and Drug Administration has announced that Caraco has [...]

A new analysis of reports submitted to the Food and Drug Administration has linked Digitek (digoxin) to at least 667 deaths between April 1 and June 30, 2008. The reports by doctors, health care professionals and consumers cited Digitek as the “primary suspect” in the deaths of hundreds of patients who had taken the heart [...]

A Kentucky man has filed a Digitek lawsuit against the distributor of the heart medication on behalf of his deceased wife. John Conte alleges that his wife, Scottye, died in October 2007 after suffering digoxin toxicity from an excess dose of Digitek.
Digitek—known generically as digoxin—was recalled by manufacturer Actavis Totowa in April 2008 after it [...]