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I remember back in 2004 coming across a report on the cardiovascular risk from Avandia. It caught my eye because I knew someone taking the drug and I took the opportunity to advise him of the issue.

Over the almost seven years since I first had reports of problems, it seems as if the controversy hasn’t stopped.

Since the problems in the US were reported recently, Avandia now seems to be having problems in Europe.

To me this falls into that category of covering up the facts as we have seen with so many other drugs throughout the last decade. And its an adjunct to this smirky comment about looking at the health protection agencies of the planet; they put forth propaganda with the purpose of causing fear….and to sell drugs.

The focus too long has been the profit motive and not public health!

GlaxoSmithKline’s Diabetes Drug Avandia Draws More Scrutiny in Europe
By MELLY ALAZRAKI, Daily Finance, 07/09/10

Problems for GlaxoSmithKline’s (GSK) diabetes drug Avandia seem to be getting worse. The European Medicines Agency said Friday it’s launching a new review of Avandia’s benefit-risk profile following new data on the possibility of cardiovascular problems.

Avandia has been in the crosshairs of scientists, regulatory agencies and even U.S. senators in the past year. The EMA decision only adds to the already existing pressure. GSK shares tumbled 2.5% in premarket trading.

Last month, two new studies linked rosiglitazone, or Avandia, to heart attacks and other cardiovascular complications. The authors of the studies said the results should prompt regulators to pull the drug from the market. A U.S. Food and Drug Administration panel is indeed going to study the data next week.

A New Reevaluation

Now, the EMA will also be considering Avandia following the recent studies. Already, the product has been reviewed several times by the agency’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use, which has updated the product information to include warnings on the use of these medicines in patients with heart problems. In 2008, the committee concluded that “rosiglitazone retained a small, if diminishing, place in diabetes type 2 therapy.” Then again, it looked at the drug earlier this year.

The committee is now assessing the new data and will be discussing the issue at its next plenary meeting, July 19-22.

“Once all relevant data on the benefits and the risks of rosiglitazone have been looked at, the CHMP will issue an opinion on whether or not the marketing authorisations for these medicines should be revoked, suspended or changed,” the EMA said in a statement.

The EU has authorized rosiglitazone on its own is as Avandia, in combination with metformin as Avandamet, and with glimepiride as Avaglim.

“Insufficient Data”?

GSK has defended Avandia, saying two heart associations have found that “Insufficient data exist to support the choice of” one treatment over the other. Still, sales of Avandia, which topped $2.6 billion in 2006, fell to $1.2 billion in 2009 after the FDA added a label warning regarding the elevated cardiac risk.

Judging from investors’ reaction, the pressure on this drug is likely to keep mounting.
http://www.dailyfinance.com/story/investing/glaxosmithkline-avandia-europe/19547971/#

from Natural Health News – 4 of 14 articles referring to Avandia
FDA and Avandia: Ethics Lacking
Jun 05, 2010
FDA-Sanctioned International Diabetes Drug Trial Is Unethical and Dangerous Surely no patient would willingly participate in a trial in which they have a substantial likelihood of taking a drug that, in the opinion of a large group of …

Risks Potentially Outweigh Benefits with Avandia
Jan 14, 2009
Avandia, manufactured by GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), was first approved by the FDA in 1999 for marketing on the basis of its ability to lower blood glucose and reduce insulin resistance. By 2006 the drug had become the top selling oral …

Avandia Increases Bone Risk for Women
Dec 10, 2008
GlaxoSmithKline, which markets rosiglitazone as Avandia, said the safety and effectiveness of the drug was backed by one of the largest clinical trial programmes ever undertaken for any medicine, with 52000 patients studied. …

Here is another well thought out idea
Sep 15, 2006
Now for women you’ll get more drug because Avandia is not as effective for you. However if you already have liver or kidney dis-ease you should not take this drug! And it will increase your LDL level so – hey – more drugs. …

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D. Telegraph 7.7.10.

Antidepressants in sea may damage food chain

Antidepressants in effluent released in coastal waters could change the behaviour of sea-life & damage the food chain, scientists say. Shrimps exposed to Fluoxetine (fluoride-containing medical drug – Prozac) were 5 x more likely to swim towards light instead of away from it. This makes them vulnerable to fish & birds. Previously crustaceons have hidden away in dark places under seaweed & rocks. It is thought the fluoxetine may be changing the serotonin levels in their brains. Dr. Alex Ford of Portsmouth University said “Shrimps are taking on the excreted drugs of whole towns.” The effects of human antibiotics, blood pressure pills & statins on sea creatures are also being studied around the world.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/wildlife/7874781/Antidepressants-in-sea-may-damage-food-chain.html

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