As Sen. Max Baucus, a Montana Democrat who worked with Grassley on this report, succinctly put it, “Patients trust drug companies with their health and their lives, and GlaxoSmithKline abused that trust.” So, unfortunately, did the FDA. By the agency’s own estimates, Avandia caused 83,000 heart attacks between 1999 and 2007. That’s a pill simply impossible to swallow.
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