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Bad versions of a cancer drug are putting child patients at risk. Why is it still on the market?

Here & Now‘s Peter O’Dowd talks with reporter Rosa Furneaux about how an ineffective version of a drug that treats a specific type of leukemia remains on the market, affecting tens of thousands of child patients around the world.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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