V.A. Is Limiting Use of Diabetes Drug
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The decision by the Department of Veterans Affairs is likely to further reduce sales of Avandia, which have fallen steeply since a medical journal questioned the drugâs safety.
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NEW YORK  - About 21 percent of individuals with diabetes do not regularly take their blood-sugar lowering, blood-pressure lowering or cholesterol-lowering pills, researchers found in study of 11,532 diabetes patients.
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U.S. health regulators recommended  on Thursday that doctors limit prescribing painkillers like  Pfizer Inc.'s Celebrex and Bextra, in light of recent evidence  that they may increase the risk of heart attack and stroke.
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US health regulators recommended on Thursday that doctors limit prescribing painkillers like Pfizer Inc.&#39;s Celebrex and Bextra, in light of recent evidence that they may increase the risk of heart attack and stroke.
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Doctors should limit use of Pfizer Inc.&#39;s Celebrex and Bextra pain drugs while regulators continue to weigh their cardiovascular risks, the US Food and Drug Administration said today.
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Many patients stop taking their medicine far sooner than they should, researchers say, and that decision can be deadly when the drugs treat heart disease or diabetes.
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For people with type 2 diabetes, taking an inhaled form of insulin before meals and a single daily injection of long-acting insulin provides blood sugar control comparable to that of a conventional all-injection insulin regimen, researchers report.
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People suffering from the most common form of diabetes could sharply cut their risk for heart attacks and strokes by taking a cholesterol-lowering drug even if they have normal cholesterol levels, according to a major new study.
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The government on Monday restricted use of an antibiotic linked to rare reports of severe liver problems, including several deaths, saying the drug now should be used only to treat pneumonia but not less serious bacterial infections like bronchitis and sinusitis.
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The widely used diabetes pill Actos appears to lower a patient's chances of death, heart attack or stroke, unlike its beleaguered chief rival Avandia, a new analysis shows.
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The largest diabetes-prevention study ever done has found that a drug already used to treat the disease can also help keep "pre-diabetics" from developing it. But many experts said losing weight and exercising remain a safer, cheaper approach.
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December 30 (HeartCenterOnline) - Diabetics with advanced heart failure who are treated with insulin are faced with a mortality rate that is four times higher than patients treated with oral medications.
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People suffering from the most common form of diabetes could sharply cut their risk for heart attacks and strokes by taking a cholesterol-lowering drug even if they have normal cholesterol levels, a major new study says.
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is facing new questions about its ability to police the safety of medicines after they reach the market following concerns about a widely used diabetes drug.
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A drug commonly used to control diabetes increases the risk of heart attacks and possibly death, researchers reported yesterday in the latest episode to raise safety concerns about a widely prescribed drug.
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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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The government's own preliminary evaluation of the diabetes pill Avandia confirms the heart risks reported in a study earlier this week and suggests that as many as 60,000 to 100,000 heart attacks might be linked to its use since it came on the market eight years ago, a leading member of Congress said Thursday.