Doctors handed out a diet pill that ate people's heart valves. π . . . 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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