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Healthy Skepticism Library item: 365

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Publication type: news

Mansfield PR.
Banned drug's world of faceless victims
The Independent Weekly (Adelaide) 2004 Oct 10-16


Abstract:

Four years after it was first prescribed to Australians, the arthritis drug Vioxx has been pulled off the market because of its potentially fatal side-effects. Dr Peter Mansfield traces the history of this class of drugs and revisits a warning he sounded when they first appeared.

 

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