Good and Bad News for Users Of Diabetes Pill
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CHICAGO -- The widely used diabetes pill Actos appears to lower a patient's chances of death, heart attack or stroke, unlike its chief competitor, Avandia, a new analysis shows.
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WASHINGTON -- The popular diabetes drug marketed as Avandia may increase bone thinning, a discovery that could help explain why diabetics can have an increased risk of fractures.
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Millions of adults at high risk of diabetes could ward off the disease by taking a drug commonly used to treat it, according to the largest diabetes prevention study yet conducted.
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QUESTION: I&#39;ve been trying to avoid artificial sweeteners, so I&#39;ve been buying regular soft drinks. Now I hear that they can lead to diabetes.
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NEW YORK  - Type 2 diabetic patients who  take their oral medications only part of the time have an  increased risk of being hospitalized within a one-year period,  the results of a new study indicate.
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A study intended to demonstrate the safety of a diabetes treatment seems, instead, to have added to the controversy.
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U.S. health officials and drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline Plc are likely to face tough questioning from lawmakers on Wednesday over their handling of data suggesting a heart risk with the widely used diabetes pill Avandia.
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Patients should not haphazardly stop taking the controversial diabetes drug Avandia, even though it has been linked to heart risks, an early critic of the drug said on Sunday.
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A U.S. Food and Drug Administration  preliminary analysis found a level of heart-attack risk with  GlaxoSmithKline Plc&#39;s  diabetes drug Avandia  similar to what was reported in a study earlier this week, the  agency confirmed on Friday.
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Patients given a mix of modern blood   pressure drugs are one-third less likely to develop diabetes   than those on older pills, researchers said on Wednesday.
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The maker of the controversial diabetes pill Avandia on Tuesday published preliminary results of a study that the company claims show the drug does not raise heart risks. However, experts say the results are inconclusive and even seem to suggest more risk from the drug.
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Web data that showed a risk for a diabetes drug is likely to spur more efforts to publicly disclose drug study results.
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Sanofi-Aventis's  Acomplia pill  can significantly improve blood sugar levels in patients with  type 2 diabetes while also reducing their weight, clinical  trial data sponsored by the French drugmaker showed on Tuesday.
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NEW YORK  - Treatment with the diabetes  drug rosiglitazone, which is marketed under the trade name  Avandia, can restore ovulation in obese women with polycystic  ovary syndrome (PCOS), a disease involving high levels of male  hormones resulting in fertility and menstrual problems, new  research shows.
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clozapine and olanzapine -- may carry a small risk of an increased risk of diabetes, new research shows.
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Some people with diabetes have an unexpected decrease in HDL ("good") cholesterol when they take fenofibrate to reduce triglyceride levels, along with an insulin sensitizer such as Avandia, according to a report from Canadian investigators.
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The maker of the controversial diabetes pill Avandia pointed to early results of its own study Tuesday, saying they offered reassuring evidence the drug doesn't raise heart risks. However, outside experts called the results inconclusive at best and a sign of greater risk at worst.