{"id":8181,"date":"2019-03-11T11:24:38","date_gmt":"2019-03-11T07:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/?p=8181"},"modified":"2019-03-11T11:24:38","modified_gmt":"2019-03-11T07:24:38","slug":"mohap-withdraws-three-hypertension-drugs-due-to-cancer-causing-chemicals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/2019\/03\/11\/mohap-withdraws-three-hypertension-drugs-due-to-cancer-causing-chemicals\/","title":{"rendered":"MoHAP withdraws three hypertension drugs due to cancer-causing chemicals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Health and Prevention has decided to suspend registration and withdraw all operations of \u201camopress 5 mg\u201d medicine from UAE markets, the medicine was used to treat high blood pressure.<\/p>\n<p>The ministry pointed out that the decision came following the Saudi Food and Drug Administration&#8217;s decision to withdraw this medicine which was registered with the Ministry of Health and Prevention after several chemical irregularities were reported.<\/p>\n<p>The ministry also issued a circular to withdraw all operations of &#8220;arbitense 50 &amp; 100mg&#8221;, which is also used to treat high pressure, in addition to &#8220;Hetlosar\u00a0 50 &amp; 100 mg&#8221; for potential chemical impurities that may be cancerous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Health and Prevention has decided to suspend registration and withdraw all operations of \u201camopress 5 mg\u201d medicine from UAE markets, the medicine was used to treat high blood pressure. The ministry pointed out that the decision came following the Saudi Food and Drug Administration&#8217;s decision to withdraw this medicine which was registered &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8182,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8181"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8183,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8181\/revisions\/8183"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}