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Welcome to the FDA Recalls and Warnings Update, a series dedicated to keeping you informed about the latest medication recalls, manufacturing violations, and quality concerns affecting your prescriptions. In this installment, we’re highlighting drug recalls for Azelaic Acid Gel, compounded semaglutide and semaglutide/glycine, Dicyclomine, Diovan, Dorzolamide HCl-Timolol Maleate Ophthalmic Solution, and Mirabegron. All recalls in this installment are nationwide “Class II” recalls.

Republish This Story for Free Creative Commons License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) MedShadow.org is dedicated to empowering people with our evidence-based journalism about the safest ways to take over-the-counter (OTC) and prescription (Rx) medications. We also seek to stimulate public discussion about potential improvements to drug research, manufacturing and distribution processes. and also to encourage the improvement of processes to ensure that we are all better protected.

FACT CHECKED For more than two decades, chemist Joshua Kritzer has studied peptides: short chains of amino acids that, when produced by the body, help cells communicate with each other. In his laboratory at Tufts University, Kritzer designs and tests peptides with the potential to treat diseases such as Alzheimer’s and cancer.

The heavily marketed memory supplement has faced years of scrutiny over its science. It still became one of the best-known brain health products in America. FACT CHECKED In 2007, a Wisconsin-based company, Quincy Bioscience, launched a product called Prevagen. It contains one main ingredient, apoaequorin, a protein originally isolated from bioluminescent jellyfish off the coast of Washington state.

FACT CHECKED WEBINARS Learn about your medications and treatment options straight from independent experts. WATCH The rise of remote work, constant smartphone use, and the industrialization of the natural world have all pushed Americans toward a shared reality: we are spending more of our lives indoors, with fewer opportunities to interact with nature than perhaps ever before.

Dr. Beau Anderson, Ph.D. Associate Dean and a Professor at Pace University in the College of Health Professions, and Associate Clinical Professor at Albert Einstein College of Medicine As a NIH-funded researcher, Associate Dean and Professor at Pace University, Dr. Anderson provides practical, evidence-based guidance for people who want acupuncture, herbal medicine, and other complementary treatments.

FACT CHECKED People rarely think about their hearing when it’s working well; it’s only when something feels off that we start to take notice. Hearing loss is one of the most common chronic physical conditions in the United States, and the risk increases steadily with age: less than 1% of infants are born with hearing impairment, but about 15% of people 18 and older report difficulty hearing.

Fact Checked FACT CHECKED One night in July 2022, a month after his first bout of COVID-19, Dan Elton woke up around 2:00 a.m. and couldn’t get back to sleep. Having gone to bed just four hours earlier, he felt far from rested, but at 6:00 a.m., he surrendered and went to make coffee. Elton, then 34, knew that sleep disruptions are a common after-effect of COVID, but he hoped his bad night had been a fluke. It wasn’t. Over the following weeks, the pre-dawn awakenings continued.

Americans are waking up to the fact that we’ve been tolerating unacceptable failure rates for drugs that are supposed to be safe and effective. Our upcoming webinar examines the changes and incentives needed to improve the drug system’s quality control and supply chains, and ensure everyone can access safe, reliable generic drugs.

Medications have many benefits, but it’s essential to know how to balance these against their potential side effects. MedShadow is a nonprofit foundation that focuses on the safest ways to take over-the-counter (OTC) and prescription (Rx) medications. Our name derives from the fact that side effects can sometimes be difficult to recognize, which is why we work to illuminate and explain medication reactions that may be minimized or obscured.