Trasylol

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FDA Delay Cost 22,000 Lives: Doctor
FDA Delay
Cost 22,000 Lives: Doctor

FDA Delay Cost 22,000 Lives: Doctor

Agency took a year to pull lethal heart surgery drug Trasylol

(Newser) - A prominent researcher who revealed widespread fatalities associated with the heart surgery drug Trasylol says 22,000 people died because of the FDA's delay in blowing the whistle on the drug after his study was published. Drugmaker Bayer also failed to disclose negative results of its own study. In a...

Sales of Heart-Surgery Drug Halted
Sales of Heart-Surgery Drug Halted

Sales of Heart-Surgery Drug Halted

Anti-bleeding med yanked after study shows higher death risk

(Newser) - Bayer Pharmaceuticals will suspend the sale of Trasylol, a drug used to control bleeding during heart bypass surgery, after a clinical study found that the drug puts patients at increased risk of death, the Washington Post reports. The FDA said sales of the drug would be halted at least until...

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