USA: Medicine for Diabetes Responsible for More Than 83,000 Deaths

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American authorities guarantee that the GlaxoSmithKline knew that the

Avandia could provoke heart attacks

 

Avandia, a drug often prescribed to patients with diabetes, may have

caused millions of heart attacks around the world. This is the

conclusion of a 334-page report submitted by the U.S. Senate on

Saturday. According to the American authorities, the GlaxoSmith-Kline

(GSK), pharmaceutical company that produces the drug, knew the risks

to which patients were exposed, but always kept them hidden from the

public. " GSK executives tried to intimidate independent researchers,

using strategies to minimize or hide the findings that Avandia could

increase cardiovascular risks and hid studies that were developing

competing drugs with reduced risk, " says the report.

 

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http://english.pravda.ru/science/health/22-02-2010/112314-diabetes_medicine_resp\

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