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I posted this as well over at Diabetes Notes, but I think it is big enough news that you will excuse the duplication.
Ok, it is official… Avandia will stay on the market. The FDA voted an overwhelming yes to keeping the drug on the shelves. They stated that they are recommending that there be warning […]
Funny, I just wrote about this on Diabetes Notes, but since everyone and their mother sent me the link, I will share it on A Hearty Life as well. The popular type 2 diabetic drug Avandia has now been linked to an increased risk of heart disease and possibly death.
More than 6 million […]
More evidence that nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) –COX-2 inhibitors*, ibuprofen, naproxen–may increase the risk of heart attacks. A Finnish case-control study comparing heart attack patients with matched control subjects found that “current use of any type of NSAID was associated with 40 percent increased risk of having a heart attack.”
Conflicting evidence abounds when it comes […]
The most common risk factors for cardiovascular disease are age, family history, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, smoking, inactivity, poor diet, weight, and other health problems. Another risk factor appears to be the pain killer Vioxx.
On Monday, closing arguments were made in one of almost 10,000 trials. The current trial involved two men who […]
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