Rita Logan

Rita Logan of Madisonville wanted to lose weight. And, thanks to Redux, she did, dropping 100 pounds.

Not long after she hit her goal weight, Redux (the "fen" in fen-phen) was pulled off the market because it damaged heart valves.

"I had already lost the weight and wasn't having any problems," Logan says.

A few years later, she was on the job as a police officer in Lincoln Heights when she began having high blood pressure problems. "I was afraid I was going to pass out," she says.

Tests showed she had congestive heart failure. She blames a combination of high blood pressure and damage caused by Redux.

she had a heart transplant in 2002.

"I'm doing fine now," she says. "I'd like to be able to thank the donor."