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Drug Manufacturer Hid Test Results

By Michael Blankenship

In the fall of 1999, the drug giant SmithKline Beecham secretly began a study to find out if its diabetes medicine, Avandia, was safer for the heart than a competing pill, Actos, made by Takeda. Avandia?s success was crucial to SmithKline, whose labs were otherwise all but barren of new products. But the study?s results, completed that same year, were disastrous. Not only was Avandia no better than Actos, but the study also provided clear signs that it was riskier to the heart. But instead of publishing the results, the company spent the next 11 years trying to cover them up, according to documents recently obtained by The New York Times. The company did not post the results on its Web site or submit them to federal drug regulators, as is required in most cases by law...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Justice Gambit on July 14, 2010 (boomark / email).