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Avandia Risks Evaluated in Europe by British Medical journal

It's been a while since the US FDA had a meeting of an Advisory Committee to discuss the future in the United States of the diabetes drug rosiglitazone (brand name Avandia), way back in July. Now it's the European's turn to shine the light on rosiglitazone and its troubled safety record:* The BBC's Panorama show ("The world's longest running... Read moreChevron
posted 09/06/2010, comment (1)|
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Avandia FDA Advisory Committee Reviews Avandia Warnings

As I mentioned these past two weeks, there was an FDA Advisory Committee (AdComm) meeting on July 13 and 14 that reviewed the safety of the diabetes drug Avandia (rosiglitazone). Transcripts of the sessions will someday be posted at the FDA website, at 2010 Meeting Materials, Endocrinologic and Metabolic Drugs Advisory Committee but until then,... Read moreChevron
posted 07/18/2010, comment (1)|
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Losing Weight the Easy Way

  With all the attention this week being given to the FDA’s review concerning heart problems connected with Avandia, one of the major diabetes drugs, you may have missed the bad news for what could have been the first new prescription drug for obesity in more than a decade. Another FDA advisory panel voted against Qnexa, which Vivus... Read moreChevron
posted 07/16/2010, comments (8)|
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Diabetes Drug Dangers

A single research report that found risks in one of the medications that we take to control our diabetes would warrant our attention. But when three separate studies find serious side effects from all our major drugs, the time is right for us to reconsider how we control our blood glucose levels. Most of us think of our diabetes drugs, diet, and... Read moreChevron
posted 04/19/2009, comments (33)|
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FDA Panel Calls for Stricter Standards for Diabetes Drugs

An FDA panel voted 14-2 in favor of requiring experimental diabetes drugs to show that they don't increase heart or cardiovascular risks.   This is bad news for diabetes drugs in the pipeline to be submitted for approval like AstraZeneca and Bristol-Myers Squibb's drug saxagliptin.   Read the story from the Wall Street Journal... Read moreChevron
posted 07/03/2008, comments (0)|
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