He said previous trials to use drugs to protect the brain had resulted in failure.

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Here, then, is a retrospective look at some of the scariest side effects to crop up over the past 12 months--from rare events like liver failure or brain-wasting diseases to more common ones such as heart attacks or strokes.

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Cerebral palsy is a condition caused by failure of part of the brain to develop either before birth, at birth or in early childhood.

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