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sandra

Actos Banned

With thousands of Actos bladder cancer patients turning to the court system for financial and legal relief. Using Actos was suspended in France and Germany last June, only a few days before the FDA issued its safety announcement. The actos lawsuit states that the decision was based on a French retrospective cohort study revealing an increased risk of bladder cancer in male patients who took the drug for at least one year. Furthermore, patients who took actos for their medication had stopped in different areas abroad which cause to alarmed them because of the report that the actos has been linked to bladder cancer as well as heart disease.

[Edited by docosama on 08-08-2012 at 08:32 AM GMT]