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Avandia Alert

(May 25, 2007) This past week, the New England Journal of Medicine published an article identifing a potential increase in the risk of heart attack and death related to the use of the popular diabetes drug rosiglitazone maleate (Avandia).  The FDA is replying to this finding, pointing to contradictory information from "other published and unpublished data from long-term clinical trials of Avandia."

Read the article here.
Read the May 21 FDA response here.


Last modified 05/25/07