Fred Figa, Who Helped Expose a Drug's Dangers, Is Dead at 65
Fred Figa, Who Helped Expose a Drugâs Dangers, Is Dead at 65 He was the first hospital official to question the use of an unregulated vitamin injection linked to the deaths of 38 infants. He died of coronavirus complications. The pharmacist Fred Figa was prompted by a routine question from a colleague to look into an unapproved drug that was found to have caused 38 infants’ deaths.Credit...via Figa family Published March 12, 2021Updated March 16, 2021 This obituary is part of a series about people who have died in the coronavirus pandemic. Read about others . In late 1983, a staff mem...
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