| Sep 24 |
FDA ups heart attack warning for Diabetes patients taking Avandia
Today, the FDA alerted patients and health care professionals that it will substantially limit Avandia’s use for Type 2 Diabetes patients who depend on the drug and can’t take any other to control their Diabetes. The FDA says new data spurred its action — data which indicates a heightened danger for heart attacks and strokes for those taking Avandia. |
Avandia, or rosiglitazone, a drug for Diabetes patients’ blood sugar control, also can harm with heart attack side effects. That hasn’t kept Avandia off the market, but it has made the Food and Drug Administration heighten its warning for the defective drug.
| Nov 26 |
New study shows you still may need an Avandia lawyer
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.
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. |
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.