New study shows you still may need an Avandia lawyer

Posted by Bruce Westbrook

November 26, 2008

If you are among the one million Americans who still take the brand name drug Avandia, you may want to join many others who have stopped taking it. That’s because yet another study of rosiglitazone, the drug used in Avandia, again has been shown to increase death rates in patients, particularly elderly patients with diabetes.

A new study by Harvard Medical School researchers, as reported this week in The New York Times, found that patients who took rosiglitazone had 15 per cent higher death rates than those who took pioglitazone, a comparable drug. The study also found a 13 per cent higher incidence of congestive heart failure in those taking rosiglitazone.

Both drugs are taken by persons with diabetes to help control their body sugar by enhancing their sensitivity to insulin, and the drugs often are taken along with other diabetes medicine. One goal is to enable patients to fend off taking insulin.

The trade-off is that both rosiglitazone and pioglitazone have been found to be dangerous by some researchers, including those who conducted a major study for the New England Journal of Medicine released last year.

The European Association for the Study of Diabetes and the American Diabetes Association both have eliminated rosiglitazone from their recommended treatments for type 2 diabetes. Also, consumer watchdog organization Public Citizen has urged the Food and Drug Administration to band rosiglitazone, not only for the heart problems it causes, but also because it may produce vision impairment, liver failure and other maladies.

Meanwhile, an estimated one million Americans continue to take rosiglitazone, often in the form of the brand name drug Avandia. If you are one of them, and if you have suffered any harmful effects as a result, contact a physician immediately. Then notify an Avandia lawyer with Jim S. Adler & Associates.

An experienced pharmaceutical lawyer with Jim S. Adler & Associates also offers a free case review.

Call an Avandia attorney with Jim S. Adler & Associates today at 1-800-505-1414 or fill out the firm’s online form for a free case review. Then launch the process of gaining your full and just financial recovery for your medical bills, your lost wages and your pain and suffering due to negative side effects of Avandia.

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