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 your _ffldavlt that Timoptlc calm slow the heart rate.
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 Un-huh
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 Are you aware that it can also cause
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 cardiac arrest?
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 A Un-huh o
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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
 15 safe o
 16 _ Correct.
 17 _ By the FDA?
 A Can _ add something?
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 Sure o
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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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