Monday, February 13, 2012

FDA Issues Safety Alert on Avandia

May 21, 2007 was Avandia day in the media. Avandia, whose other name is rosiglitazone, is one of two currently-available drugs in a class of diabetes medications called "TZDs" (thiazolidinediones) or "glitazones". The other is pioglitazone (Actos).   Yesterday saw a flurry of news reports af...
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Dee Dimoff
6/ 7/07 5:06am
my mother who is 80 years old and was very active was prescribed avandia last fall for her diabetics.Then the end of april 2007 she was awakened out of her sleep with trouble breathing due to fluid around the heart.Since then she has had quadtruple artery bypass on may 6,2007.The doctor still has her on avandia......plus laskits for fluid.She also has had trouble with her vision.....what should we do?

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