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The diabetes pill Avandia may cause significant heart risks. The FDA is now investigating and news is pouring out about the drug.

Avandia, sold by the British company GlaxoSmithKline PLC, is a blockbuster medication used to treat Type 2 diabetes, the most common form of the disease. More than 6 million people worldwide have taken the drug, whose U.S. sales topped $2.2 billion last year.

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Glaxo Documents in Avandia Lawsuit Must Be Produced

A federal judge overseeing the Avandia multidistrict litigation has ordered GlaxoSmithKline to produce dozens of documents in a lawsuit over Avandia’s heart side effects. In doing so, the judge rejected Glaxo’s claim that the documents were subject to attorney-client or work product privilege. Avandia’s cardiovascular problems have been the subject of concern since May 2007, [...]

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Federal Judge Rejects GlaxoSmithKline's Claims of Privilege

PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- In a decision of importance to the case at hand and all cases involving claims of attorney-client or work product privilege, the Honorable Cynthia M. Rufe of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, in a decision of December 7, 2009, has ruled that GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), the manufacturer of the prescription diabetes medication Avandia, must produce dozens of documents...

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Another suit filed against GSK over Avandia in St. Clair County

More than 30 people say GlaxoSmithKline was wrong in selling a diabetes drug without first warning of potential serious side effects from which they or their deceased relatives suffered. Lead plaintiff Edgar Bennett, along with 30 others, filed suit Nov. 16 in St. Clair County against the drug company and McKesson Corporation.David R. Jones of Edwardsville will be representing them. A different group of lawyers -- John J. Driscoll of St...

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Same pair of lawyers gather another 90 plaintiffs in suit over Avandia

DriscollMore than 90 people say GlaxoSmithKline was wrong in selling a diabetes drug without first warning of potential serious side effects from which they or their deceased relatives suffered. Lead plaintiff Carmen Colon, along with 97 others, filed suit Nov. 12 in St. Clair County against the drug company. John J. Driscoll of St. Louis, Christopher Cueto of Belleville and Robert L. Salim of Natchitoches, La., will be representing them...

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Arkansas man claims diabetes drug caused heart attack

TEXARKANA, Ark. An Arkansas man with diabetes but an otherwise clean bill of health claims his diabetes medication Avandia caused him to suffer a heart attack. Kenneth L. Bryan, 58, filed a personal injury lawsuit against GlaxosmithKline on Nov. 18 in the Texarkana Division of the Western District of Arkansas. Bryan states that around the same time he was given a clean bill of health in December 2003, he began taking the prescription drug...

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