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Plan: Home grown based on Protein Power
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The "cure" that kills
From today's Washington Post. The full article is at this location.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dy...8-2001Aug8.html
By David Brown
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, August 9, 2001; Page A01
The maker of cerivastatin, a popular cholesterol-lowering drug used by about 700,000 Americans, voluntarily pulled the medicine off the market yesterday because of numerous deaths associated with its use.
Officials at the Food and Drug Administration said 31 people have died of complications of severe muscle breakdown, a rare but well-recognized side effect of many cholesterol-lowering drugs. In about one-third of the cases, the person was on a second cholesterol drug, gemfibrozil, known to especially increase the risk of probl |
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