Avandia, Diabetes Drug, Harms the Heart, Studies Find

nytimes.com:

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.

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Comments

[StephenJK]

06:39 AM on 02/22/2010

This is the good "science" I hear everyone talking about. Rush the drug out to market and lets have a study of it. It's all GARBAGE. I'd rather die than live by Big Pharma. These people are manslaught­erers and have not a moral fiber in their bodies.

[zabaglione]

09:59 PM on 02/21/2010

You can view avandia's adverse events reported to the FDA using this search engine: http://www­.fdable.co­m/aers/que­ry/b3dd147­1cab6

[Fred Hood]

08:35 AM on 02/21/2010

our FDA is so bought and paid for by big phar......­.....a pill that kills you and we might recommend it be taken off the market

[jdbond]

07:04 AM on 02/21/2010

I bet this would never happen in free market!

[linton]

06:56 AM on 02/21/2010

This is how the drug industry make their money. Let's take good care of ourselves, give up the sugar, excercise more, eat healthy and take in less of these drugs. They know some these drugs are bad but the GREEN supercedes everything else.

[godipo]

03:15 AM on 02/21/2010

Just about enough to make a person feel completely nuts; the idea that our government pours untold amounts of money into hunting down marijuana smokers but leaves this drug on the market, along with lots of others...r­ecently the FDA okayed prescribin­g statins to people who have no health issues. Statins cause dementia. There are so many of these stories. The whole medical cartel makes my head whirl. I feel as though I had been bashing my head into a wall, or should.

[GG NV]

03:09 AM on 02/21/2010

Another drug Actos which is the same class of drugs as Avendia is almost as bad. Lots of side effects.

[hulagirrrl]

10:32 PM on 02/20/2010

The FDA is a joke, and I for one believe that there are many people on another payroll working within the FDA.

People with diabetes type ll will become the new smokers, and nobody really cares too much about drugs for them...

[paliuli]

10:14 PM on 02/20/2010

It is sad when illegal street street drugs have a better safety profile than the prescripti­on drugs.

[drricklippin]

10:04 PM on 02/20/2010

Trust in Big PhRMA is justifiabl­y severely eroded. This Avandia scandal comes after a number similiar indictment­s of other drugs in recent years.

Fines and lawsuits are not enough to stop the rampant greed and unsafe practices of a former miracle industry gone completely sour.

Put some of the most egregious Big PhRMA CEOs into jail. Enough is enough.

Dr. Rick Lippin
Southampto­n,Pa

[StephenJK]

06:48 AM on 02/22/2010

All I needed to see was one of their ridiculous commercial for any of the new "IT" drugs. They spend 10 seconds with the remedies and another 50 seconds is the possible side effects that run the gammut to death. It is a racket, Doc. An insidious, dangerous racket.

[Palemoon]

09:39 PM on 02/20/2010

My father d1ed of heart failure almost a year ago. If you guys know Destin who posts on here too, it was our father. And in the last few years he was alive, he was placed on diabetes medicines. I wonder if it was this particular one. Because he suddenly went downhill very, very fast. And all the doctors would do is just blame it on congestive heart failure and medicate him more to deal with the side effects and send him home. At one point they gave him zoloft. For apparently no other reason than helping him deal with his last few years. That was bad because that turned him more violent and angry. Just like everyone else I've seen taking zoloft.

Anyways, I'm getting angry myself. But if I find out that this was the medicine he was on, I'm gonna make sure the family files a lawsuit over it. All of those GOP and Tea Party tort id1ots can kiss my A$$ if they think I'm going to stand by and allow my father to have d1ed in vain!!

[Palemoon]

09:44 PM on 02/20/2010

Just to give people an idea of what I mean... November 2008 he was still pretty health, alert, vibrant and able to get around on his own. That summer prior he had considered taking up golf again, which he played for most of his life and had to give up for a while because of a pacemaker/­defib they put in him that took a long time to heal and he wasn't able to swing a golf club. So anyways, he's doing ok in Nov 2008, d3ead on March 22, 2009.

Went downhill that fast.

[simarti44]

05:03 AM on 02/21/2010

My deepest sympathies to you palemoon and your family.

[StephenJK]

06:46 AM on 02/22/2010

My condolence­s to you and your family. I hope you find peace within, soon.

[nomobull]

08:46 PM on 02/20/2010

become you own researcher­. my mother has. she took herself off of vioxx . and her cholestero­l medicine. vioxx because she read an article before her doctor did. and the cholestero­l medicine because she has learned to listen to her body. she started having symptoms like joint pains and numbness..
thank God she has a doctor that puts patients above drug companies. told her not take any more of it .and did some research . put her on a cholestero­l lowering diet. no more pain .

[LittleRedHenSez]

08:44 PM on 02/20/2010

This is very! old news. Why are doctors still prescribin­g it? I'd get a new dr. if I had one who was still writing prescripti­ons for this.

[Philip123]

08:04 PM on 02/20/2010

Elsewhere it is estimated Avadia caused some 83,000 excess heart attacks. Add that to the 140,000 excess heart attacks from Vioxx. With "medicines­" like this who needs healthcare reform. Certainly the pharmaceut­ical industry wants to maximize its profits by giving drugs out for chronic conditions­, but its not a good business model to murder all your customers, no wage earners left to leach from.

If the FDA were an organic herbal provider rather than the paid stooge of the pharmaceut­ical industry they would be on trial for charges of genocide by this point.

http://hea­lthjournal­club.blogs­pot.com/

[fcsakes]

06:44 PM on 02/20/2010

Oh please, don't bother big pharma. They are much too busy trying to take over control of marijuana, the supplement market, and trying to ban all herbal remedies that don't come directly from their greedy hands. How much will it take to pay off the FDA on this one?

Let's see, first they have to convince them that they have only the public's interest at heart. That shouldn't be too hard, they do it all the time...oh hey, don't show them the tests with all the WRONG results!

[simarti44]

05:10 AM on 02/21/2010

They also basically let Monsterant­o create all of our food now. Gawd only knows what kinds of monsters will be roaming the earth when they are finished with their experiment­ation on humans.
Add on to that the chemtrails no one will talk about that poison us.
They are all so corrupt. I have become so non-mainst­ream medicine because I cannot trust anyone but myself with my health or care.

[fcsakes]

06:37 AM on 02/21/2010

I like that, "Monsteran­to," and yes, I agree, you are your own best advocate for your health!

[StephenJK]

06:42 AM on 02/22/2010

Right there with you. Then come all of the "science" proponents that detract from the alternativ­e medicine field saying "none of it has any scientific proof behind it". Well, if Big Pharma and the rest of the "scientist­s" call this good "science" I've got a bridge in Brooklyn to sell them.

Trust me people, you're better off dead than letting Big Pharma kill you slowly.