Healthy Skepticism Library item: 14656

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Publication type: news

Mundy A.
Doctors Claim Glaxo Dismissed Worries on Avandia
The Wall Street Journal 2008 Nov 19
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122705732777039555.html

Abstract:

Drug Maker Tried to Make Physician at Maryland Hospital Stop Talking About Concerns; Company Defends Its Effort

Full text:

Last year, after news broke that the diabetes drug Avandia was linked to a high risk of heart attacks, reports that the drug’s maker had tried to stifle safety questions from a prominent University of North Carolina researcher years earlier provoked a furor.

Now it turns out that the UNC researcher wasn’t alone in suggesting a tie to heart problems. A doctor from a small Maryland hospital linked Avandia to congestive heart failure in 2000, but the drug’s maker, GlaxoSmithKline PLC, rejected her warning and tried to make her stop talking about …