LONDON (Bloomberg): Singapore health officials have recalled three of 46 versions of the diabetes drug metformin after finding amounts of a cancer-causing substance that was "above the acceptable level".
The recalled drugs had been sold locally for only a short time, and the risk to patients who had taken them is low, Singapore's Health Sciences Authority said in a statement.
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