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PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Drug maker Wyeth is preparing to distribute $1.28 billion from a supplemental fund to about 40,000 people who took a diet drug linked to heart problems.
The money will come from the $21.1 billion the company set aside for litigation related to the drug combination known as fen-phen, company spokesman Doug Petkus said.
The drug combination was pulled from the market in 1997 amid concerns that it caused heart-valve defects and other problems. Some 5.8 million people had taken the drug.
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