Video: FDA Pulls Popular Painkiller off Market

Monday, November 22, 2010 - 18:01 in Health & Medicine

The manufacturer of the painkillers Darvon and Darvocet have agreed to stop marketing the drugs at the request of the FDA. The drugs' core compound, propoxyphene, has been linked to serious and sometimes fatal heart rhythm abnormalities. Dr. Jon LaPook reports.

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