Avandia: Reaction and implications

Article > Avandia: Reaction and implications: "Dr Wolfe went on to say that more than three years ago at an FDA advisory committee meeting, Public Citizen urged the FDA to ban Avandia. 'Since then, 9 million prescriptions for the drug have been filled in the USA. This means that, just in the past three years alone, tens of thousands more patients have needlessly suffered hospitalisations for heart failure or deaths' than would have had they taken Takeda's Actos (pioglitazone), 'a comparable, but safer drug'.