News You Can Use: FDA issues safety alert for diabetes drug

News You Can Use: FDA issues safety alert for diabetes drug
posted by kmarshall 296 days 28 minutes ago

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a safety alert for the diabetes drug Avandia after a study in Monday’s New England Journal of Medicine reported that the drug increases the risk of heart attacks and possibly death.

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