Category: Dangerous Medications

  • FDA’s Biggest Blunders

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    Kirsten Knudsen
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    The Food and Drug Administration’s sordid drug recall past. By Jim Kling for MSN Health & Fitness Merck’s Vioxx, a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory (NSAID) painkiller, made headlines in 2004 when the company voluntarily withdrew it from the U.S. market following reports of increased rates of strokes and heart attacks in patients taking the drug chronically. Vioxx was…