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Doctors handed out a diet pill that ate people's heart valves. πŸ’Š
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Dark HistoryJul 27, 2026

Doctors handed out a diet pill that ate people's heart valves. πŸ’Š

Doctors handed out a diet pill that ate people's heart valves. πŸ’Š . . . Fen-Phen was prescribed to roughly 6 million Americans in the 1990s to melt off pounds. In 1997, Mayo Clinic cardiologists found the drug scarring heart valves in previously healthy women. Wyeth pulled it and paid over $13 billion in settlements β€” one of the largest drug liability payouts in US history.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fenfluramine/phentermine
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