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Thu 08 Aug 2001Bayer pulls cholesterol drug from JapanGermany's Bayer today it was withdrawing its Baycol anti-cholesterol drug from Japan, while fears of increasing compensation claims sent the stock back on a sharp downward course.Baycol's potentially deadly side effect of muscle weakness has been particularly notable among patients treated at the same time with another cholesterol-lowering drug, gemfibrozil.