{"id":4991,"date":"2010-11-19T18:19:49","date_gmt":"2010-11-19T23:19:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/?p=4991"},"modified":"2011-07-19T17:44:42","modified_gmt":"2011-07-19T21:44:42","slug":"darvon-and-darvocet-withdrawn-from-u-s-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/2010\/11\/19\/darvon-and-darvocet-withdrawn-from-u-s-market\/","title":{"rendered":"Darvon and Darvocet Withdrawn from U.S. Market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fda.gov\/NewsEvents\/Newsroom\/PressAnnouncements\/ucm234350.htm\">The FDA announced today<\/a> that Xanodyne Pharmaceuticals had agreed to withdraw Darvon and Darvocet from the U.S. market. The drugs contain the opioid propoxyphene, which the FDA said &#8220;puts patients at risk of potentially serious or even fatal heart rhythm abnormalities.&#8221; The FDA said it had asked generic manufacturers of propoxyphene to withdraw their products also.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The FDA announced today that Xanodyne Pharmaceuticals had agreed to withdraw Darvon and Darvocet from the U.S. market. The drugs contain the opioid propoxyphene, which the FDA said &#8220;puts patients at risk of potentially serious or even fatal heart rhythm abnormalities.&#8221; The FDA said it had asked generic manufacturers of propoxyphene to withdraw their products [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,1],"tags":[574,573,196,575],"class_list":["post-4991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electrophysiology","category-general","tag-darvocet","tag-darvon","tag-fda","tag-propoxyphene"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}