Lawsuit filed against makers of drug Avandia
Lufkin Daily News - Lufkin,TX,USA
By SANDRA CASON MARSHALL -- A wrongful death lawsuit has been filed in federal court here against the manufacturer of Avandia, a diabetes treatment drug ...
Patients taking Avandia should consult doctor
Therapeutics Daily (subscription) (press release) - Newtown,PA,USA
As I promised readers, here's an update on Avandia. The drug has been at the epicenter of controversy since findings from a recent meta-analysis suggested ...
Avandia Fight: Drs. Nissen And Home "Battle" Over Drug
CNBC - Englewood Cliffs,NJ,USA
(%) ] sponsored study that, so far, supports Avandia's safety. Because of the predicament the conflicting reports have put doctors in, the ADA added this ...
In Defense Of Home Remedies To Treat Ailments
Hartford Courant - United States
Vioxx for arthritis and Avandia for diabetes have both reinforced the fear that long-term side effects may not show up for years. Vioxx increased the risk ...
Congress Debates Avandia's Safety, Researchers' Motives and FDA Role
U.S. Medicine - Washington,DC,USA
By Stephen Spotswood WASHINGTON-Whether Avandia, the GlaxoSmithKline's blockbuster diabetes drug, raises the risk of heart attacks while it lowers blood ...
Understand How Recent Safety Concerns Will Affect PPAR-Gamma Agonists
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
Sales of the two PPAR-gamma agonists, GlaxoSmithKline's Avandia and Takeda's Actos, are significant drivers of type 2 diabetes market sales. ...
What do all the studies on diabetes drug Avandia really mean?
Nature.com (subscription) - London,England,UK
In this case Steve Nissen, who published the analysis on Avandia, pooled information from 42 randomized trials (N. Engl. J. Med. 356, 2457-2471; 2007). ...
Avandia Story Heats Up
dLife.com - Westport,CT,USA
By Daniel Trecroci It seems every week there is a new twist to the Avandia(r) plot that makes it more and more of a soap opera--as the TZDs turn! ...
Avandia - What You Should Know
dLife.com - Westport,CT,USA
If you are taking Avandia as part of your diabetes treatment - or are considering it - you've probably been glued to news surrounding the potential ...
Glaxo's Avandia in spotlight at diabetes meet
Reuters.uk - UK
By Kim Dixon CHICAGO (Reuters) - Controversy over the popular diabetes pill Avandia is taking centre stage among the world's experts on the disease on ...
Conflict of interest?
Chemistry World - London,UK
Panic-stricken headlines about Avandia have damaged the FDA's reputation once again. This time it was quick to respond and a safety alert about the drug ...
Avandia Sales Drop
InjuryBoard.com - Tampa,FL,USA
By Greg Owen Sales of Avandia, the drug developed to aid diabetes patients, have dropped by approximately 10% since The New England Journal of Medicine ...
Glaxo plays down new study on Avandia bone risk
Reuters.uk - UK
LONDON, July 2 (Reuters) - A new small clinical study suggests diabetes drug Avandia could lead to bone fractures in men as well as women, ...
The right diet could change lives for diabetics
San Jose Mercury News - CA, USA
By Caroline Trapp Larry Alan Stanford died of a heart attack May 21 - the very same day that a study came out revealing that Avandia, a diabetes drug he had ...
