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Tretinoin
An acne medicine that was used during a 1998 clinical trial was not responsible for the deaths of several veterans participating in the study, an analysis has found. The study of retinoid tretinoin cream was designed to test whether the medicine would help prevent certain types of skin cancer in high-risk patients. The trial was halted six months early when a increased risk of death was seen in patients using the cream versus those using a placebo. But a closer look at the data from that trial...
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