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Several common drugs that contain valsartan, used to treat high blood pressure and heart failure, were recalled in the United States on Friday due to an "impurity" in the drug that poses a potential cancer risk. That impurity, N-nitrosodimethylamine or NDMA, is classified as a probable human carcinogen, based on results from lab tests. The medicines included in the voluntary recall are valsartan from Major Pharmaceuticals, Solco Healthcare and Teva Pharmaceuticals Industries, as well as valsartan/hydrochlorothiazide from Solco and Teva. Valsartan is off patent and is used as a component of other generic medicines, but not all medicines containing the...

Palin had previously warned about the perils of socialized medicine and Obamacare before the law was enacted. “Government health care will not reduce the cost; it will simply refuse to pay the cost,” Palin wrote in 2009 while predicting "death panels." "And who will suffer the most when they ration care? The sick, the elderly, and the disabled, of course.” Politifact deemed Palin's remarks to be its "Lie of the year," and Palin was mocked years before liberals like Howard Dean, Paul Krugman, and some of President Barack Obama's former advisers – like Steven Rattner – finally conceded she was...