The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and drugmaker Actavis Inc. have announced that about one million fentanyl patches used to treat such chronic pain conditions as arthritis and cancer are being recalled from store and pharmacy shelves. Actavis voluntarily issued the recall after laboratory tests showed that the active ingredient in one batch of the patches was releasing medication into the bloodstream too quickly. This issue could cause a variety of symptoms in patients, including...
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