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FDA Makes Product Warnings On NSAID Painkillers Even Sterner

First it was our old friend Vioxx that caused about 140,000 heart attacks in the early 2000s.

As a result, the FDA began warning people about the risk of heart attack and stroke with this class of meds as far back as 2005.

Still further, it seems biotech researchers suspected those risks for as-long-as 15 years; at least in high-dose cases.

Well Now: The FDA is putting its foot down still further and ramping up warnings on even garden variety…

If you ever wondered how Aspirin or Ibuprofen do their thing to blunt the worst effects of your various relatives at the yearly family gatherings,

(ok) before you hit the Wild Turkey,

or just liked learning well-explained technical stuff from cutely-illustrated videos, this basic TED-Ed short is for you.