{"id":416,"date":"2018-07-31T09:56:38","date_gmt":"2018-07-31T09:56:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usclassactions.com\/potential-lawsuit-valsartan-cancer-risk-legal-news-and-lawsuit-information\/"},"modified":"2020-06-21T12:54:14","modified_gmt":"2020-06-21T12:54:14","slug":"potential-lawsuit-valsartan-cancer-risk-legal-news-and-lawsuit-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usclassactions.com\/?p=416","title":{"rendered":"Potential Lawsuit: Valsartan Cancer Risk Legal News and Lawsuit Information"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The drug Valsartan (a generic version of Diovan), which is prescribed to treat high blood pressure and prevent heart failure, has been recalled worldwide after it was found to contain N-nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA), a known carcinogen. Valsartan contamination from a Chinese manufacturing plant may date back to 2012, potentially exposing many patients to Valsartan cancer risk, liver damage and tumors. It has been on the market for 15 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The drug Valsartan (a generic version of Diovan), which is prescribed to treat high blood pressure and prevent heart failure, has been recalled worldwide after it was found to contain N-nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA), a known carcinogen. Valsartan contamination from a Chinese manufacturing plant may date back to 2012, potentially exposing many patients to Valsartan cancer risk, liver damage and tumors. It has been on the market for 15 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usclassactions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usclassactions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usclassactions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usclassactions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usclassactions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=416"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/usclassactions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3553,"href":"https:\/\/usclassactions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416\/revisions\/3553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usclassactions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usclassactions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usclassactions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}