Tuesday, June 5, 2007

U.S. lawmakers to grill Glaxo, FDA on diabetes drug

(Reuters) - A furor erupted last month when a Cleveland Clinic analysis linked Avandia to a 43 percent higher chance of having a heart attack. The Food and Drug Administration and Glaxo say other data provided conflicting evidence.




Glaxo has said it gave regulators information in August 2006 that estimated a 30 percent higher heart-attack risk with Avandia. Some critics question why neither the FDA nor Glaxo alerted patients sooner.


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