Rosiglitazone (Avandia) News, Updated Regularly

Spending on prescription drugs slows - Morris County Daily Record
January 6, 2009, 12:58 am

Spending on prescription drugs in 2007 showed the smallest increase in more than four decades, driven by rising use of low-cost generic drugs, chain stores offering $4 prescriptions and more drug safety warnings that may have dampened consumer demand ...

Dubious drugs, tainted foods top 2008?s health stories - Battle Creek Enquirer
December 31, 2008, 12:47 pm

Doubts over the safety of diabetes and heart treatments, disappointing results for vitamins as cancer fighters, and the withdrawal of over-the-counter cold medicines for kids were some of 2008?s top health stories. But there was good news, too ...

Dubious Drugs, Tainted Foods Top 2008's Health Stories - Forbes
December 29, 2008, 3:56 pm

WEDNESDAY, Dec. 31 (HealthDay News) -- Doubts over the safety of diabetes and heart treatments, disappointing results for vitamins as cancer fighters, and the withdrawal of over-the-counter cold medicines for kids were some of 2008's top health ...

Indian retail drug sales jump 10% amid slowdown - Business Standard
December 31, 2008, 11:21 am

The drug makers? sales in the local market grew by 10.3 per cent till November 2008, at Rs 33,769 crore, compared with the corresponding previous 12 months, according to ORG-IMS, which tracks sales of pharmaceutical drugs in India. As against this ...

America Losing the Fight With Type 2 Diabetes - Forbes
December 28, 2008, 3:57 pm

TUESDAY, Dec. 30 (HealthDay News) -- The type 2 diabetes epidemic that continues to sweep across the United States has left an estimated 24 million Americans struggling with the disease, up more than 3 million people since 2005. And, of course, with ...

2 Diabetes Drugs Double Fracture Risk in Women - Atlanta Journal Constitution
December 31, 2008, 9:27 am

WEDNESDAY, Dec. 10 (HealthDay News) -- Two widely prescribed diabetes drugs, Avandia and Actos, double the risk of fractures in women but not in men, a new British analysis finds. Avandia (rosiglitazone) and Actos (pioglitazone) are used to lower ...

Blood type switch among 2008 surprises - West Online
December 31, 2008, 6:23 pm

A major IVF milestone, a new form of sex therapy for older women and no-cut, no-scar heart surgery for Aussies topped medical news in Australia in 2008. New vaccines found success while other potential lifesavers failed, and a handful of ...

December 2008 - Weblogs.baltimoresun.com
December 28, 2008, 3:57 pm

We're getting the sense that the new blog authored by Joe Steffen, better known as the Prince of Darkness who did Bob Ehrlich's dirty work for years, will be the gift that keeps on giving. In his most recent post , Steffen delights with the detail ...

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Fri Nov 14

• A pilot study of the effects of pioglitazone and rosiglitazone on de novo lipogenesis in type 2 diabetes -- Beysen et al. 49 (12): 2657 -- J. Lipid Res.

Fri Oct 3

• The Effect of Rosiglitazone on Overweight Subjects With Type 1 Diabetes | Full Text | Strowig and Raskin 28 (7): 1562 Diabetes Care
• The Effect of Rosiglitazone on Overweight Subjects With Type 1 Diabetes -- Strowig and Raskin 28 (7): 1562 -- Diabetes Care

Tue Aug 19

• Diabetes Diary 2: Do Not Take The Pink Pill at Somerset' Bob's Place: We tend to trust our doctors. We take the medicines they prescribe us without giving too much thought as to how they do what they do ? or their possible side-effects. In the second of his Diabetes Diary entries, Bob Kingsley takes a closer look at the medications he?s been prescribed, and finds that one of them ? rosiglitazone ? has recently been shown to have a very worrying downside.

Fri Aug 1

• Cardiovascular safety determines the direction of PPAR agonist R&D: The field of novel PPAR delta and of triple (or pan-) PPAR agonists is lead by GSK.

Tue Apr 29

• New Worries Over Blockbuster Meds Avandia, Fosamax

Mon Feb 4

• MedlinePlus Drug Information: Rosiglitazone: Rosiglitazone is used along with a diet and exercise program and sometimes with one or more other medications...
• Glimepiride and Rosiglitazone (Oral Route) - MayoClinic.com: Glimepiride and rosiglitazone combination is used to treat high blood sugar levels that are caused by a type of diabetes...
• Avandaryl can treat type 2 diabetes: Avandaryl combines two medicines to treat type 2 diabetes - Avandia (rosiglitazone maleate) and glimepiride (a sulfonylurea) - in one convenient pill. Along with eating healthy and staying active, Avandaryl can help you control your blood sugar
• Diabetes mellitus type 2 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Diabetes mellitus type 2 or Type 2 Diabetes (formerly called non-insulin-de pendent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM), or adult-onset diabetes) is a metabolic disorder that is primarily characterized by insulin resistance, relative insulin deficiency and hyperglyc

Tue Jan 22

• In Vivo Myocardial Protection From Ischemia/Reper fusion Injury by the Peroxisome Proliferator?A ctivated Receptor- Agonist Rosiglitazone: Circulation 104: 2588-2594, 2001.

Thu Dec 13

• Avandia -FDA Alert: [Posted 11/14/2007] FDA informed healthcare professionals of new information added to the existing boxed warning in Avandia's prescribing information about potential increased risk for heart attacks. The new information refers to a meta-analysis of 42 cli

Wed Sep 12

• ScienceDaily: Long-term Use Of Diabetes Drug Increases Heart Attack Risk By More Than 40 Percent

Mon Sep 3

• Rosiglitazone for type 2 diabetes mellitus. [Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2007] - PubMed Result: rosiglitazone does not improve outcomes in DM2

Thu Aug 30

• NEJM -- The Rosiglitazone Story -- Lessons from an FDA Advisory Committee Meeting

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