drug regulation

John Abramson, MD, is a Harvard Medical School Lecturer, national drug litigation expert, and author. His new book, "Sickening: How Big Pharma Broke American Health Care and How We Can Repair It," will be available on February 8.

Fen-Phen & Redux were "the next miracle drugs" in the '90s, claiming to help people lose dramatic amounts of weight in just three months.  But within a few short years, they'd been pulled from the market.  They were just too effective! (Just kidding, they killed some people.)

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Links! 

• Dispensing with the Truth by Alicia Mundy
• The New Miracle Drug (Time Magazine)
• How Fen-Phen, A Diet 'Miracle,' Rose and Fell (the New York Times)
• Blowing the Whistle on Fen-Phen (Journal of Business Communication)
• Purdue OxyContin settlement would rank among largest in pharma history (Reuters)
• National Trends in Antiobesity Medication Use (JAMA Network)
• The Fen-Phen Finale: A Study of Weight Loss and Valvular Heart Disease (Obesity Research)

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