Rosiglitazone and Pioglitazone: Thiazolidinedione Alert Center

VICTORY: Rosiglitazone and Atherosclerosis The drug showed a trend toward a slowing of the progression of atherosclerosis and an overall positive effect on metabolic factors in the VICTORY study in post-CABG diabetes patients.
News, April 10, 2008
FDA, GSK, and Rosiglitazone In a letter to GlaxoSmithKline, the FDA said that an inspection in late 2007 focusing on compliance with postmarketing adverse drug experience reporting requirements found that the company failed to report data from clinical usage and failed to disclose or submit data from clinical trials.
News, April 09, 2008
Rosiglitazone Updated Labeling The US FDA adds new information to the existing boxed warning while safety assessment continues. The Canadian authorities have taken similar action, albeit with a more strongly worded warning.
News, November 14, 2007
New Pioglitazone and Rosiglitazone Studies One study shines the spotlight on pioglitazone, suggesting that it may indeed have a better safety profile than rosiglitazone, at least in terms of ischemic events, while yet another meta-analysis of rosiglitazone, looking only at studies in diabetics, reaffirms the increased risk of MI seen in other recent studies.
News, September 12, 2007
Rosiglitazone Wrangling Continues Letters to the editor published in this week's print issue of the journal quibble with the statistical methods used in Nissen and Wolski's original meta-analysis, while online letters trade barbs over a subsequent rosiglitazone Perspective.
News, August 29, 2007
Rosiglitazone a Reminder of Need for FDA Reform Dr Clifford Rosen, who chaired the recent FDA panel meeting, says rosiglitazone's rise and fall highlight the need for a tougher preapproval process, and postmarketing trials with teeth.
News, July 25, 2020
Reanalysis of Rosiglitazone Meta-Analysis Raises Questions A new analysis of the same 42 trials, but using a number of different statistical methods to account for all the zero events, found no significant increase in either MI or CV death and highlights flaws in the original study. In response, Nissen counters that the report is now neither useful nor relevant in the wake of the FDA hearing.
News, July 25, 2020
Cochrane on Rosiglitazone The new review found no evidence of any benefits with the drug over other available treatments for diabetes and, because of side effects such as edema, fractures, and possible increased risk of MI, recommends that other antidiabetic medications be used in preference.
News, July 18, 2007
Fracture Risk With Avandia Not unlike a prizefighter battered and bruised, rosiglitazone continued to take it on the chin this week with an analysis of ADOPT expanding upon the increased risk of fracture among diabetic women taking the controversial TZD.
News, July 25, 2020
Rosiglitazone Policy Implications The rosiglitazone saga has led to more calls for reform of the FDA, the latest coming from drug safety expert Dr Brian Strom and former FDA commissioner Dr Donald Kennedy. While Strom and Kennedy concur that changes are needed at the FDA, they disagree on the merits of Nissens meta-analysis. Dr Valentin Fuster also comments on the rosiglitazone saga.
News, July 25, 2020
Nissen Responds to Rosiglitazone Debate at ADA Meeting Much in the spotlight in the past month, Dr. Steven Nissen's audience this time, instead of politicians on Capitol Hill, was a house full of physicians and researchers in a hastily added panel discussion.
News, June 28, 2007
Rosiglitazone Safety and Politics; New CHF Warnings Announced New black-box warnings about CHF risk are in the works for the glitazone drugs, but whether rosiglitazone increases MI and CV death rates, debated during Wednesday's oversight committee hearing, remains unresolved. Participants also quibbled over the FDA's handling of drug data and the role of partisan politics in medical matters.
News, June 07, 2007
RECORD Interim Analysis One RECORD investigator calls interim findings from RECORD "moderately reassuring": at 3.75 years there are no differences in risk of hospitalizations or death from cardiovascular causes. While MI trends higher, deaths trend lower in the results so far. Three accompanying editorials take a considerably dimmer view.
News, July 25, 2020
Rosiglitazone Meta-Analysis Continues to Drive Controversy in Second Week The rosiglitazone story rumbles on this week, with some observers claiming that the meta-analysis was timed to get data into the public arena without the FDAs knowledge, thereby bringing the subject of drug safety to the fore once more. In the meantime, the one ongoing trial that everyone agrees will give definitive information on cardiovascular outcomes with rosiglitazone could be in jeopardy,
News, May 30, 2007
Rosiglitazone: What Does It All Mean? Experts give heartwire their take on the furor that has resulted from the meta-analysis published earlier this week. The prevailing view appears to be that there is no need for panic and that while the analysis does suggest a safety signal, it does not justify removing the drug from the market at this time or the general chaos that has occurred.
News, July 25, 2020

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