It is true that we understand the safety profile of established drugs better than we understand the safety of brand-new drugs ...

(Fen-phen and Vioxx are two examples.) I generally avoid prescribing brand-new drugs until they have a bit of a track record, as long as there are tried-and-true alternatives. But I do have ...

(Fen-phen and Vioxx are two examples.) I generally avoid prescribing brand-new drugs until they have a bit of a track record, as long as there are tried-and-true alternatives. But I do have ...

(Fen-phen and Vioxx are two examples.) I generally avoid prescribing brand-new drugs until they have a bit of a track record, as long as there are tried-and-true alternatives. But I do have colleagues ...

(Fen-phen and Vioxx are two examples.) I generally avoid prescribing brand-new drugs until they have a bit of a track record, as long as there are tried-and-true alternatives. But I do have ...

She is the author of “Dispensing With the Truth: The Victims, The Drug Companies, and the Dramatic Story Behind the Battle over Fen-Phen,” (St. Martin’s Press). Ms. Mundy has a B.S. from ...

Fenfluramine is an old drug and achieved some degree of notoriety in the 1990s as half of the fen-phen weight-loss therapy, which was banned after the combination was linked to cardiovascular ...

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Sadly, over the years marketed drugs have been anything but safe and effective: the last 40 years have seen many drugs withdrawn because of serious, or even deadly, side effects, such as Fen-Phen ...

At the same time, the use of fenfluramine and phentermine together ("fen-phen") was gaining in popularity, and cases of PPH associated with these drugs soon appeared. [10] Although the IPPHS had ...