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your _ffldavlt that Timoptlc calm slow the heart rate.
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Are you aware that it can also cause
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cardiac arrest?
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EAs cardiac arrest resulted in deaths among
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patients using Timoptlc?
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_ think there have been about 30e 32 deaths
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reported from the use of topical Timoptlco
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Okay. The FDA repo:_ts that between 1978
and December 1985_ there have been 3_000 reports of
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adverse effects from topical Tioptlc.
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]4 _ And this was aster the drug was approved as
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A Can _ add something?
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A _ must say that even despite the vast
21 amount -- and _ mean for Tim_olol we're using almost
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present day standards in terms c_ gettlng it onto the
23 market. _t _ake_ many years to get anything onto the
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market and available -- but despite the most rigorous
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testing that _as ever done _or any other drug before,
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