{"id":6972,"date":"2010-04-19T11:13:04","date_gmt":"2010-04-19T15:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asweetlife.org\/?p=6972"},"modified":"2015-12-29T08:30:53","modified_gmt":"2015-12-29T13:30:53","slug":"fda-may-stop-avandia-trials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/?p=6972","title":{"rendered":"FDA May Stop Avandia Trials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/GSK-Logo.jpg\" rel=\"mfp\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6974 alignleft lazyload\" style=\"margin: 4px;\" title=\"GSK Logo\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-src=\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/GSK-Logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"157\" height=\"157\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/GSK-Logo.jpg 157w, https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/GSK-Logo-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 157px) 100vw, 157px\" \/><\/a>The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is considering stopping a safety study involving thousands of patients taking GlaxoSmithKline PLC&#8217;s Avandia according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748704508904575191944217066832-search.html\" target=\"_blank\">Wall Street Journal<\/a>. Avandia has been linked to an <a href=\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/a-sweet-life-staff\/in-the-news\/type-2-in-the-news\/robert\/blogs\/type-2-blogs\/avandia-and-heart-disease-part-1\/5111\/\" target=\"_blank\">increased risk of heart attack<\/a>. If the trial is stopped, the FDA will also consider asking Glaxo to stop selling the drug, a decision that could also determine whether the drug stays on the U.S. market.<br \/> No decision on the trial (called TIDE) has been made yet, and according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/health\/2010\/04\/19\/fda-mulling-end-to-avandia-actos-trial-on-safety-worries\/?KEYWORDS=avandia\" target=\"_blank\">WSJ<\/a> won\u2019t be until after a July meeting about the drug.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is considering stopping a safety study involving thousands of patients taking GlaxoSmithKline PLC&#8217;s Avandia according to the Wall Street Journal. Avandia has been linked to an increased risk of heart attack. If the trial is stopped, the FDA will also consider asking Glaxo to stop selling the drug, a decision that could also&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":29447,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1442],"tags":[590],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.9 (Yoast SEO v22.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>FDA May Stop Diabetes Drug Avandia Safety Study<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Food and 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