1/ The prescription drug #Vioxx, indicated mainly for arthritis, was withdrawn from the market in 2004 due to how it induced cardiovascular events in many patients. A few years before that, the “miracle” diet drug Fen-phen was pulled because of some devastating side effects, too.
Ever since then I’ve wondered about what other risky drugs are still out there and available. One I’ve thought about is #finasteride, marketed as Proscar and Propecia and now trivially available via startups like Hims.