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Avandia Diabetes Drug: New FDA Restrictions, Type 2 Diabetes

GlaxoSmithKline Avandia Diabetes Drug, FDA Imposes New Restrictions To Patients With Type 2 Diabetes The Food And Drug Administration says Avandia can stay on the market in the USA but it outlined new restrictions. ...

created by Sudha Krishna | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago
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Avandia Report Released: Recommend Actos Medication Instead

The Avandia report was released yesterday and its findings may shock some people. Avandia is a controversial diabetes drug for Type 2 diabetes, and confidential government reports obtained by the New York Times state that hundreds of people suffer from heart attacks and heart...

created by Amy Judd | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago
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Avandia Side Effects Cause Two Healthcare Providers to Drop the Drug

"LONDON (Reuters) - Two U.S. pharmacy benefit managers said on Thursday they had dropped GlaxoSmithKline Plc's diabetes drug Avandia from their national formularies due to safety concerns. The moves by Prime Therapeutics and HealthTrans mark the latest example of U.S....

created by comoms | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago
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FDA Adds Boxed Warning for Heart Attacks to Anti-Diabetes Drug Avandia

FDA Adds Boxed Warning for Heart Attacks to Anti-Diabetes Drug Avandia Agency says drug to remain on market, while safety assessment continues The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced today that the manufacturer of Avandia (rosiglitazone), a drug used to...

created by comoms | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago
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Diabetes Drug Avandia should be pulled from the Market

"The widely used diabetes drug Avandia should be pulled from the market because of heart risks, a federal scientist said Monday. Those risks, combined with no unique short-term benefits in helping diabetics control blood-sugar levels, fail to justify keeping Avandia on the...

created by alaaron | 4 years ago
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Alzheimer's Theory Set for Drug Test

"AP - A provocative new theory suggests that one root cause of Alzheimer's disease is linked to diabetes — a theory about to be tested in thousands of Alzheimer's patients given the diabetes drug Avandia in hopes of slowing brain decay."