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What are the diet pills that caused that heart problem?
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Fen-phen: Fenfluramine & phentaramine were two medications that when taken together as a weight loss aid were found to cause heart problems in some patients. The material was pulled from the marked in 1997 after the problems became evident.
Answered 3/24/2015
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