By GARDINER HARRIS Published: February 19, 2010 Hundreds of people taking Avandia, a controversial diabetes medicine, needlessly suffer heart attacks and heart failure each month, according to confidential government reports that recommend the drug be removed from the market. The reports, obtained by The New York Times, say that if every diabetic now taking Avandia were instead given a similar pill named Actos, about 500 heart attacks and 300 cases of heart failure would be averted every month b
后面有这么一个评论,相当有意思。 304 deaths in 3 months! The Taliban has only managed to kill an average of 115 Americans a year in Afghanistan but GlaxoSmithKline can kill that many in about 5 weeks. It proves that if you want a job done right just use that good ol' American know-how, and greed.