nifedipine
Britishnoun
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Traditional coronary dilators, like the nitroglycerin tablets taken by angina patients, may assume greater importance�as will new ones, such as the experimental drugs nifedipine and verapamil.
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The latest example of such excess was the promotion of nifedipine, a heart medication marketed by Pfizer Inc. under the brand name Procardia.
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Researchers at North Shore University Hospital on Long Island, New York, have discovered that nifedipine also disables the membrane of the sperm, preventing it from binding to an egg and fertilizing it.
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The comparisons, said the FDA, "emphasized only the advantages of Procardia by making carefully worded positive statements about nifedipine and then remaining silent regarding any similar actions of verapamil."
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