F.D.A. Calls for New Warnings on Diabetes Drugs
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The agency on Wednesday said that it had decided to put the most serious safety warning on Avandia and Actos.
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A relatively new blood test for people with diabetes can predict their risk of developing heart disease, U.S. researchers reported on Monday.
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CHICAGO A leading doctor says physicians and patients are obliged to keep a close watch on new prescription drugs for side effects.
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration warned GlaxoSmithKline Plc  on Thursday over misleading advertisements touting its hypertension drug called Coreg.
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WASHINGTON - GlaxoSmithKline PLC's Avandia, the world's best-selling diabetes drug last year, will carry US regulators' strongest warning on the risk of heart attacks.
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BusinessWeek Online - The news last week that GlaxoSmithKline&#39;s  popular diabetes drug Avandia may increase the risk of heart attacks is now causing a rift among doctors by specialty, leading to charges by each side that the other is endangering patients. Endocrinologists, who treat diabetics, tend to regard the data, which was published in The New England Journal of Medicine, with skepticism, pointing to weaknesses in the study, particularly when compared to more rigorous clinical trials. Cardiologists and drug safety experts, foremost among them study author Dr. ...
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A leading diabetes doctor sent the Food and Drug Administration a letter seven years ago that warned of the heart risks of the drug Avandia.
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Reports of side effects, including heart attacks, have tripled since an analysis revealed that the popular diabetes drug may increase the risk of heart problems.
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A U.S. Food and Drug Administration preliminary analysis found a level of heart-attack risk with GlaxoSmithKline Plc's  diabetes drug Avandia similar to what was reported in a study earlier this week, the agency confirmed on Friday.
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A new Food and Drug Administration analysis backs earlier suggestions of a link between at least some antidepressants used by children and suicidal tendencies, prompting the agency to prepare new warnings.
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Antipsychotic drugs prescribed to children for bipolar disorders, aggression, and schizophrenia have been linked to a higher risk for type 2 diabetes in a new study presented at a American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry meeting.
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WASHINGTON &#151; Safety concerns about a GlaxoSmithKline diabetes drug prompted some Democratic lawmakers on Wednesday to rebuke the Food and Drug Administration and call for increased regulation of the pharmaceutical industry.
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Abbott Laboratories Inc. added  several new warnings to the label for its rheumatoid arthritis  drug Humira, according to a company letter released on Monday.
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One in 12 people should be taking a drug to prevent diabetes, researchers estimate.
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A government-sponsored diabetes education group launched a new campaign on Tuesday to address what they say is one of the nation's growing health problems: diabetes among the elderly.
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a new report on Tuesday describing potential risks of several medicines after criticism that it was lax in policing drugs once they were on the market.
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Business & money: Europe's largest drugmaker blames safety concerns over its Avandia diabetes pill