FDA holds safety hearing on 50-year-old painkiller (AP)

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FDA holds safety hearing on 50-year-old painkiller
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AP - Call it the cold case file of drug safety. Federal health officials convened a public hearing Friday on whether to ban Darvon, a painkiller first approved in 1957, when there were few alternatives for treating pain except aspirin and powerful narcotics.


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