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Study: Diet Drug Harmful to Hearts

Weight-loss aid Meridia increases the risk of heart attacks and strokes in some patients, prompting more calls for the drug to be pulled from the market. "You're trying to prevent people from having heart attacks [through weight loss], and here this drug caused more," said the executive director of the New England Journal of Medicine. 

 

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