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Parkinson's Drug Withdrawn

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The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday announced a "voluntary withdrawal" of a Parkinson's disease drug sold generically as pergolide and under the brand name Permax.

The agency said the drugs, whose use has been declining, were pulled following reports of heart-valve problems and two recent studies published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Pergolide is used with other drugs to help manage symptoms, such as tremors, for Parkinson's, a neurological disorder. ...

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