What’s Your Guidance for People Taking Avandia?

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henrykirston of IN 8:57AM October 28, 2010

Dr. Nissen obviously has an agenda. He seems to take pride in putting out metanalyses that confuse people in the general public. The totality of data surrounding Avandia (RECORD, BARI-2D, ADOPT, ACCORD, VADT, etc) contain long-term, robust data that not only show Avandia does not increase risk of heart attack, but may even decrease that risk (reference the January issue of Circulation citing data from the NIH funded BARI-2D trial).
The media, and Dr. Nissen, are extremely negligent in fully conveying all of the scientific information on this, and other medically significant topics.
My prayer is that somehow, Dr. Nissen can be held accountable for his actions.

Jason Rakestraw of GA 5:30PM March 03, 2010