side effect
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The most common side effect is a prominent skin rash, which affected more than 86% of patients in the study.
From Science Daily • Jun. 4, 2026
The high doses raise risks of a side effect that can cause brain bleeds and swelling.
From Barron's • Jun. 3, 2026
It’s one more side effect of the booming market for artificial intelligence.
From Barron's • Jun. 1, 2026
But even people who don’t mean to hurt capybaras can still do harm to them, an unfortunate side effect of them living in such proximity to humans.
From Slate • May 27, 2026
A side effect of the surgery, he discovered early in the Everest climb, was that the low barometric pressure that exists at high altitude caused his eyesight to fail.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
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