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Death from Viagra?
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Business New Haven
9/17/2001
By: BNH
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BERLIN - Germany's health ministry said September 7 that 616 people worldwide had died after using Pfizer Inc.'s (NYSE: PFE) Viagra but cautioned against attributing blame for the deaths to the anti-impotence drug.
In a response to a request by a member of parliament, the ministry said the data bank of the Swedish-based Uppsala Monitoring Center (UMC) had recorded 616 cases of people who had died after using Viagra.
A spokesman for Pfizer, the world's largest pharmaceutical firm, told Reuters the drug is safe and effective when used as prescribed. “Well-controlled clinical trials show no difference in the incidence of heart attack or death between patients treated with Viagra and those treated with placebo,'' said Jeoff Cook, spokesman for Pfizer.
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