A study linked the cholesterol drug Tredaptive to serious side effects that included development of diabetes, gastrointestinal problems, bleeding and infections, according to a Reuters report.
Manufacturer Merck had already decided not to sell the drug in the United States and to take it off the market in dozens of other countries, after findings that it failed to prevent heart attacks, strokes, death and other complications in heart patients.
Tredaptive isn’t ...
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A recent study has put America’s health care and work-related costs related to diabetes at $245 billion in 2012, according to a story in USA Today. That represents a 41 percent increase from 2007, when the cost was $174 billion.
Diabetes, a disease in which blood glucose levels are above normal, is the country’s seventh leading cause of death, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The study, commissioned ...
continue reading...A story in the British newspaper Daily Mail deals with mounting concerns about serious side effects related to the popular anti-cholesterol drugs known as statins. The story includes a profile of a Welsh man who began taking statins for high cholesterol at the age of 57. Soon afterward, he began suffering from side effects he blames on the drug.
According to the story, he had troubling bouts of memory loss.
The story quotes him as saying: “I was constantly losing my thread ...
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued a warning that the antibiotic azithromycin, sold as Zithromax or “Z-Pack”, may cause a potentially fatal irregular heart rhythm in some patients, Reuters reports.
According to the report, the FDA has said that Zithromax can cause abnormal changes in the electrical activity of the heart. And that, in turn, can lead to a potentially fatal heart rhythm called a prolonged QT interval, in ...
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