3 responses to “Concerns Raised About Diabetes Drug Avandia”

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   David

   September 6, 2010 at 7:36 pm

   
   

    

    

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   David

   September 28, 2010 at 9:36 am

   
   

   The Food and Drug Association (FDA) in the US which is the agency responsible for approving drug use. It is interesting the drug Avandia which has been on the market for the last 11 years has had its use for heart ailments severely restricted by the FDA last week .

   Here is an interesting article on the subject matter:
   http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-09-28/recalled-drugs-tied-to-heart-risk-spurs-call-for-fda-review.html

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   Georgie Porgie

   September 28, 2010 at 10:34 am

   
   

   Sir David, Sir!
   Avandia has been on the market for the last 11 years TRUE
   The Food and Drug Association (FDA) in the US which is the agency responsible for approving drug use has recently restricted use of Avandia TRUE

   Note, however, that Avandia is not indicated for heart ailments as the post above seems to say. LOL Watch the English David and the sentence structure or J will come down on you like a ton of bricks. LOL

   Note also that though Avandia was once the world’s best-selling diabetes drug (according to this new report you cite) that (according to your earlier post) the drug is not widely stocked by pharmacies in Barbados, as there is limited use.

   I think you realize that pharmacies in Barbados do not widely stock drugs that doctors do not write frequently. Why do you think that doctors are not frequently writing prescriptions for a drug that is widely used elsewhere?

   I would like to suggest that the local doctors are wisely following the protocol or maxim that one must never be the first to embrace the new or the last to abandon the old. It seems David that in this case that the doctors in Bim are AHEAD of the Avandia story.

   Regular long time readers of BU will remember that earlier this year that I had to put some serious licks in BU’s braying jackass ROK, when he sought quite erroneously and errantly to say that medical protocols are old fashioned and obsolete. Now you can perhaps understand the need for protocols and the one cited above.

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