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Regular readers of this column know that one of my major themes is to defend lifesaving effective drugs that are wrongly targeted in the media. Readers also know that, although I am on the lookout for side effects, that I never complain as much as when a concern is overhyped and turns into a health scare.
But one phenomenon that has grown in the past few years is FDA black-box warnings. Fearing a media bashing over a certain drug, the FDA...