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The Food and Drug Administration voted overwhelmingly to keep the diabetes drug Avandia on the market, despite its known deadly effects. Two FDA committees met yesterday in Gaithersburg, Maryland, to consider whether the drug -- which has led to the deaths of 80,000 people -- should be pulled from the marketplace.

The FDA does not deny that the drug is dangerous. Members of the FDA's Endocrinologic and Metabolic Drugs Advisory Committee and the Drug Safety and Risk Management Advisory Committee voted 20-3 to acknowledge the finding that the drug raises the risk of heart attacks, and called for stronger warning labels.

Dr. Clifford J. Rosen, from St. Joseph Hospital in Bangor, Maine, said after the meeting that "there was enough concern on the advisory committee that virtually everybody felt there was risk" of heart attacks from taking Avandia.

Nonetheless, committee members voted 22-1 to keep the drug on the market, knowing full well that the drug would kill some percentage of those patients who take it.

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