Beasley, Allen, Crow, Methvin, Portis & Miles, P.C.

Another prescription heart medication has been pulled from the market because some pills have been found to be oversized. Those oversized pills may contain slightly higher levels of the active ingredient than specified, according to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which issued the alert.

Watson Pharmaceuticals, Inc., announced the voluntary recall of Propafenone HCL 225 mg tablets sold in 100-count bottles in the United States. The affected tablets were sold to customers between October 15, 2008 and November 26, 2008. No other strengths or lots were affected and the company does not anticipate any product shortages as a result of this recall.

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Individuals suing manufacturers of Digitek heart medicine must fill out lengthy and detailed fact sheets on their medical history and allow no secrets from their past, according to The West Virginia Record.

The fact sheets will be used in court to determine whether Mylan Pharmaceuticals of West Virginia, Actavis US and DUL Laboratories misrepresented Digitek as safe and whether physicians and patients relied on those “misrepresentations and deceptions” in choosing to use the heart medicine.

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Actavis Inc. has signed a proposed consent decree agreeing to fix the manufacturing problems at its New Jersey plant where it produced and sold the heart drug, Digitek, a brand of digoxin, according to the Canadian Medical Association Journal.

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Wim Michna understood the power of medicine. He was a physician in Marin County, California. In the early 2000s, he received an arterial bypass and shortly thereafter was prescribed Digitek, also known as digoxin, by his personal doctor to strengthen and regulate his heartbeat. He remained on the medication for two years until another doctor advised him to stop. While taking the medication, Dr. Michna’s kidneys failed and he suffered from heart palpitations, dizziness, weakness and other symptoms that made another physician order a blood test. The test revealed what the symptoms were alluding to – that Dr. Michna was suffering from the ill effects of digoxin poisoning. The level of digoxin in his body was several times higher than the maximum allowable. It was too late to save him. Dr. Michna died just months after the toxicity was identified. He was 80.

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