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Reports of Diabetes Drug Side Effects Triple after Publication of Study

2/28/2008 - (NaturalNews) In the month after the announcement that the popular diabetes drug Avandia may lead to an increased risk of heart attacks, reports of the drug's side effects from doctors to the federal government tripled. On May 21, 2007, the New England...

Diabetes Drug Danger Alert: Avandia Linked to Heart Trauma

2/1/2008 - (NaturalNews) If you are a person suffering from Diabetes, then please listen up. There has been a recent study done by the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences in Toronto providing statistics regarding the side effects of Thiazolidinediones. This...

FDA Collaboration with Big Pharma Raises Eyebrows

1/17/2008 - (NaturalNews) The Andrew von Eschenbach FDA era is upon us. The Avandia scandal is the tip of the iceberg. Is anyone ready? The words “illicit financial collusion” have been replaced by the politically correct term, “collaboration.” On May 30, in defense...

GlaxoSmithKline reportedly threatened diabetes expert over Avandia warnings

11/26/2007 - (NaturalNews) A diabetes expert has claimed that pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline threatened him with legal action after he raised concerns about the safety of the company's anti-diabetes drug rosiglitazone, marketed as Avandia. In a written...

FDA Drug Risk Evaluation employee reprimanded for mentioning dangers of diabetes drug

11/14/2007 - (NaturalNews) The former deputy director of the FDA's Division of Drug Risk Evaluation has said that she was verbally reprimanded by her superiors when she recommended that diabetes drug Avandia be labeled with a "black box" warning about congestive heart...

FDA refuses to pull dangerous diabetes drug Avandia, even knowing it will kill thousands

8/1/2007 - The Food and Drug Administration voted overwhelmingly to keep the diabetes drug Avandia on the market, despite its known deadly effects. Two FDA committees met yesterday in Gaithersburg, Maryland, to consider whether the drug -- which has led to the...

China sentences ex-head of FDA to death over drug company bribes

5/29/2007 - The penalty in China is death, in America it's business as usual. Zheng Xiaoyu, the former head of China's FDA, was sentenced to death for accepting $832,000 in drug company bribes and for dereliction of duty. Like China, our country is in the middle...

FDA Knew of Avandia's Dangers Nearly Five Years Ago, Memo Shows

5/23/2007 - The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) knew nearly five years ago about the dangers associated with the diabetes drug Avandia, an internal FDA memo shows. A study released Monday by the New England Journal of Medicine showed a 43 percent increase in...

New diabetes drug causes weight gain, bone fractures

12/14/2006 - (NaturalNews) According to a new study published in this week's New England Journal of Medicine, GlaxoSmithKline's new Avandia diabetes drug delays the progression of type 2 diabetes in newly diagnosed patients, but may cause serious side effects, including...

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