Avandia, the diabetes drug that causes heart failure, has regularly been given to patients. . .with heart failure. The practice is so common that one medical trial even focused on 224 patients with congestive heart failure who were taking the drug.  Not surprisingly, it was a massacre.  Five per cent died, 13 per cent reported a ...

Avandia (rosiglitazone), the diabetes drug, may soon be pulled from markets around the world after a study discovered it increased the risk of heart attack by 45 per cent.  America's drug regulator, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), has issued an urgent safety alert, and is likely to follow up with a complete ban ...