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Entries from August 2008

Avandia Lawsuit Filed

August 18th, 2008 · No Comments

Lany Standford, a type 2 diabetic, died after suffering a heart attack in May, 2007. He had been prescribed Avandia to regulate his insulin levels; however, the drug turned out to be more dangerous than the condition it was meant to treat.
Stanford’s family has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the manufacturer, GlaxoSmithKline. According to […]

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Information Withheld from the FDA by Avandia Manufacturer

August 11th, 2008 · No Comments

The United States Food and Drug Administration has been investigating the drug Avandia for some time now. In early 2008, the FDA issued a warning letter to the drug’s manufacturer, GlaxoSmithKline, for postmarketing safety reporting failures.
The large manufacturer claims that any information that was withheld was done so by mistake. GlaxoSmithKline states that the missing […]

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