No kidding they should be stopping this! We just found out that the study Gramps was in....involved this very drug.
He has an appointment next week to find out if he has any health problems due to this.
Rains. Pours.
Best wishes concerning his appointment.
By the way, you're a Gramma and your Gramps is still kicking? Wow! Are you Filipino? (I've known a Filipino of 36 who was a gramma and her own gramma was still around (she told me: "Eh, no big deal!")
How did they rope him in to that?
Didn't they tell him that ANY drug trial, by it's very nature is outside the normal parameters?
One hint lies in evidence from earlier trials that it slightly raises blood pressure in some patients. It was thought that this mild problem would be offset by the heart benefits of the drug. But it is possible that it actually proved fatal in some patients who already suffered high blood pressure.
...then hopefully the effects would go away pretty soon after getting off the drug.