Diabetes News Archive

A new Senate report blames the diabetes drug Avandia for thousands of heart attacks. As Kimberly Dozier reports, calls to remove the deadly drug from the market have gone unheeded.

The Diabetes Drug Avandia Is Linked To Tens Of Thousands Of Heart Attacks, And Manufacturer GlaxoSmithKline Knew Of The Risks For Years, A Senate Committee Report Says.

The Diabetes Drug Avandia Is Linked To Tens Of Thousands Of Heart Attacks, And Manufacturer GlaxoSmithKline Knew Of The Risks For Years, A Senate Committee Report Says.

The diabetes drug Avandia is linked with tens of thousands of heart attacks, and drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline knew of the risks for years but worked to keep them from the public, according to a Senate committee report released Saturday.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 20 (UPI) -- The U.S. Senate Finance Committee released a 334-page report Saturday showing a link between the Type 2 diabetes drug Avandia and thousands of heart attacks.

(CNN) -- The diabetes drug Avandia is linked with tens of thousands of heart attacks, and drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline knew of the risks for years but worked to keep them from the public, a Senate commit...

SATURDAY, Feb. 20 (HealthDay News) -- The blockbuster type 2 diabetes drug Avandia raises users' odds for heart attack and heart failure and should be removed from the market, according to confidential government reports.

A Senate report says GlaxoSmithKline knew of possible heart attack risks tied to Avandia, its diabetes drug, years before such evidence became public.

CNN is reporting that a United States Senate committee report is linking the diabetes drug Avandia with "tens of thousands of heart attacks, and drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline knew of the risks for year...

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SATURDAY, Feb. 20 (HealthDay News) -- The blockbuster type 2 diabetes drug Avandia raises users' odds for heart attack and heart failure and should be removed from the market, according to confidential government reports.

Feb. 20 (Bloomberg) -- GlaxoSmithKline Plc knew its diabetes drug Avandia might cause heart damage several years before a study documented the risk and the company pressed doctors to retract or revise warnings about side effects, said a report from researchers for the U.S. Senate Finance Committee.

The diabetes drug Avandia is linked with tens of thousands of heart attacks, and drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline knew of the risks for years but worked to keep them from the public, a Senate committee report released Saturday says.

Bottlenose dolphins can switch diabetes on and off - a trick that could be mimicked to treat humans with the condition Scientists have discovered a biological quirk in bottlenose dolphins that could lead to a treatment for late-onset diabetes in humans. Studies on the marine mammals found that healthy dolphins switch into a diabetic-like state overnight when they are not feeding, but revert to a ...

Bottlenose dolphins can switch diabetes on and off - a trick that could be mimicked to treat humans with the condition Scientists have discovered a biological quirk in bottlenose dolphins that could lead to a treatment for late-onset diabetes in humans. Studies on the marine mammals found that healthy dolphins switch into a diabetic-like state overnight when they are not feeding, but revert to a ...

Confidential U.S. government reports recommend that GlaxoSmithKline Plc's diabetes drug Avandia be pulled from the market because it can hurt the heart, The New York Times reported on Friday.

Dolphins are the only animals that can develop type 2 diabetes like humans with the exception that they can switch their condition off, a new study finds.

Hundreds of people taking Avandia, a controversial diabetes medicine, needlessly suffer heart attacks and heart failure each month, according to confidential government reports that recommend the drug be removed from the market.

A Stratton Spotlight article recently highlighted a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) survey that showed a dramatic rise in the number of diabetes cases during the last 10 years and noted that pharmaceutical research and biotechnology companies are working on nearly 200 new medicines to treat this debilitating disease. The rate of new cases of diabetes increased by more than 90 ...

For more information on natural treatments for diabetes in general, see the full Diabetes article. This entry discusses natural treatments for the complications of diabetes .

Bottlenose dolphins have a condition like human type 2 diabetes, but the animals can turn it off and on. The discovery suggests human medicine might someday do the same.

WASHINGTON - CONFIDENTIAL US government reports recommend that GlaxoSmithKline Plc's diabetes drug Avandia be pulled from the market because it can hurt the heart, The New York Times reported on Friday. The newspaper said the findings, which it said it obtained, reported that if all diabetics now taking Avandia were given Takeda's Actos drug instead, about 500 heart attacks and 300 cases of ...

Hundreds of people taking Avandia, a controversial diabetes medicine, needlessly suffer heart attacks and heart failure each month, according to confidential government reports that recommend the drug be removed from the market.

Hundreds of people taking Avandia, a controversial diabetes medicine, needlessly suffer heart attacks and heart failure each month, according to confidential government reports that recommend the drug be removed from the market.

A trick dolphins use to keep their big brains fed with energy could potentially lead to a cure for adult diabetes, say scientists.

DOLPHINS are the only animals apart from humans to develop a natural form of type 2 diabetes, according to new research. The discovery offers important insights into a disease that is linked to one in...

They are warm blooded, social and highly intelligent animals, and just like humans their brain is much bigger than expected for their size. But dolphins also share something else with man - they suffer a diabetes-like state not seen in any other wild animal.