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Doctors Didn’t Know This Common Antibiotic Was Deadly

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Levaquin is one of the most commonly prescribed antibiotics in the U.S. It’s also overprescribed and can cause serious side effects—even death.

Six plaintiffs filed an $800 million lawsuit (PDF) against former Federal Drug Administration chief Margaret Hamburg and health giant Johnson & Johnson, accusing them of hiding the dangers of the antibiotic Levaquin to increase profits.

There are many unconvincing claims in the lawsuit, but that the lethal effects of the drug...

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