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18/01/2023at 12:05

Merck is set to remove cancer-causing chemical from top diabetes drugs

Last year, the pharmaceutical firm found potential carcinogens in some of its best-selling diabetes drugs – but the issue could be resolved in 2023.
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by Robert Langreth and Cynthia Koons, bloomberg

Merck & Co., known as MSD outside the US, has discovered how its blockbuster diabetes medications have become contaminated with a potential carcinogen and believes it can resolve the problem by the end of the year.

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