China halts use of diabetes drug after deaths
Reuters – China’s Ministry of Health has ordered doctors around the country to stop prescribing a diabetes drug after a fake batch of the medicine was linked to the deaths of two patients.
The patients died in China’s far western region of Xinjiang after taking counterfeit medication that carried the brand of Guangxi Pingnan Pharmaceutical Co but had not been produced by that company, the ministry said in a statement on Friday.
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