The NYU system also includes the Tisch Hospital, the Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine, and the Hospital for Joint Diseases.

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The Brooklyn resident checked into New York's Hospital for Joint Diseases in January 2004 for routine surgery to repair a broken shoulder.

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"I think the FDA made a decision about the overall safety of this drug and felt that there were alternatives, " says Steve Abramson, chairman of rheumatology at New York University's Hospital for Joint Diseases.

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