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May 21, 2009 | Posted by: roboblogger

Study: Diabetes drug lowers amputation risk

Full story: Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Doctors who gave diabetics a drug originally intended to lower patients' cholesterol found it reduced their risk of so-called minor amputation by 36 percent, a new analysis of research says.

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