GSK - Avandia: Daily Mail readers beware

Jerome Burne at The Daily Mail asks if the UK medicine regulators are protecting the public sufficiently. He uses an Avandia case as an example:

Bob Bowen had been diabetic for 18 years when his doctor switched him to a newly licensed drug called Avandia. The effect was devastating.

'After a month, my feet, legs and thighs suddenly swelled to twice their normal size and I was diagnosed with heart failure,' he says.

'The doctor told me to keep taking the Avandia. Two months later, I passed out.'

Bob spent 10 days in hospital and was diagnosed with heart valve damage, a heart blockage, fluid on the lungs and kidney failure. Neither Bob nor any of his family has a history of heart problems and his doctors now believe these were triggered by the drug.

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