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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...hemorrhagic stroke, especially in young women. The FDA subsequently deemed it unsafe and asked manufacturers to pull medications containing PPA off pharmacy shelves. PPA has been on the market since the mid-1930s, and consumers take 6 billion doses of it annually, in such products as Alka-Seltzer, Robitussin, Dexatrim and Tavist-D. Though PPA is widely used in many popular cold and diet pills, medications with the safer alternative pseudoephedrine are easy to find...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 2001: Your A To Z Guide To The Year In Medicine | 1/15/2001 | See Source »

...hemorrhagic stroke, especially in young women. The FDA subsequently deemed it unsafe and asked manufacturers to pull medications containing ppa off pharmacy shelves. ppa has been on the market since the mid-1930s, and consumers take 6 billion doses of it annually, in such products as Alka-Seltzer, Robitussin, Dexatrim and Tavist-D. Though ppa is widely used in many popular cold and diet pills, medications with the safer alternative pseudoephedrine are easy to find...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Your A to Z Guide to the Year in Medicine | 1/6/2001 | See Source »

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