Sunday, February 21, 2010

Diabetes Drug Avandia linked to Heart Attacks

Pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline knew of possible heart attack risks tied to its controversial diabetes drug Avandia years before evidence of a link became public, according to a U.S. Senate report released Saturday

Don't get to angry at the Pharmaceutical Company just yet, they have a co-conspirator!
The senators who released the report -- Max Baucus (D-Mont.), chairman of the Finance Committee, and Charles E. Grassley (Iowa), the committee's ranking Republican -- are also asking the Food and Drug Administration why it allowed a clinical trial of Avandia to continue even after the agency estimated that the drug caused 83,000 heart attacks between 1999 and 2007.


The FDA did require GSK to conduct a 6 year study involving 16,000 participants to more accuartely assess Avandia's safety. Who is willing to be a test subject with the possibility increased you will have a heart attack?

Work Smarter Not Harder!
Dr David Marcon
Cincinnati, Ohio
drdavidmarcon.com

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