There's a wonderful drug, and a class of drugs actually, but the particular drug was Vioxx, and for people who were suffering from severe arthritis pain, the drug was an absolute lifesaver, but unfortunately, for another subset of those people, they suffered pretty severe heart side effects, and for a subset of those people, the side effects were so severe, the cardiac side effects, that they were fatal.
当时有一种效果很好的药物，其实是有一类药物， 但其中我要讲的是Vioxx， 对那些因为关节炎而遭受剧烈疼痛的患者来说， 这种药物绝对是根救命稻草， 但很不幸的是，对于另外一个亚型的患者， 这种药物却会引起心脏方面的严重副作用， 有些患者的副作用非常严重， 并最终死于这种副作用。