Today we have even more bad news in two separate studies about the diabetes drug Avandia. With the bad news we get all the time about diabetes you might wonder why I report more negative stuff.
It’s because we have much better alternatives.
I have been studying a pre-print of a report scheduled to appear in the highly-respected Cochrane Library, a journal devoted to systematic reviews of health care interventions. The abstract is online. This is a publication of the Cochrane Collaboration,...
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