kcredden
June 15th, 2007, 10:43 AM
NewScientest writes: (http://www.newscientist.com/home.ns)
IT HAS taken a while, but on 6 June the US Food and Drug Administration announced the diabetes drug Avandia will soon come with a prominent "black box" warning about the risk of congestive heart failure. Experts reviewing the drug for the FDA first called for one over a year ago. Some say the delay is another example of industry versus science, with science the loser.
“Some say the delay is another example of industry versus science, with science the loser”
An oral drug that lowers blood sugar, GlaxoSmithKline's Avandia has been used by patients with type 2 diabetes since 1999. Concerns over possible heart-related side effects were raised by diabetes specialists in 1999, and again last year by FDA reviewer Rosemary Johann-Liang, who says the FDA ignored her proposal for a stronger warning. The FDA is investigating her claims.
more here (http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg19426084.900&feedId=health_rss20)
IT HAS taken a while, but on 6 June the US Food and Drug Administration announced the diabetes drug Avandia will soon come with a prominent "black box" warning about the risk of congestive heart failure. Experts reviewing the drug for the FDA first called for one over a year ago. Some say the delay is another example of industry versus science, with science the loser.
“Some say the delay is another example of industry versus science, with science the loser”
An oral drug that lowers blood sugar, GlaxoSmithKline's Avandia has been used by patients with type 2 diabetes since 1999. Concerns over possible heart-related side effects were raised by diabetes specialists in 1999, and again last year by FDA reviewer Rosemary Johann-Liang, who says the FDA ignored her proposal for a stronger warning. The FDA is investigating her claims.
more here (http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg19426084.900&feedId=health_rss20)