June 8, 2009 - Wall Street Journal Diabetes Articles

On June 8, 2009 The Wall Street Journal Published two interesting articles regarding Diabetes Treatments:

Diabetes Study Questions Expensive Treatments

NIH Finds Patients With Heart Disease Fare Equally Well Without Stents and Drugs Such as Avandia, Actos.
Aggressive use of expensive diabetes drugs and medical devices called stents did no better than cheaper treatments at preventing deaths, heart attacks or strokes in a large study of diabetics with heart disease.
The study, sponsored by the National Institutes of Health and several drugmakers.
For the full article:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124441644145192397.html


Study Ties Diabetes Drugs to Fractures
Two important diabetes drugs already associated with heightened heart-risk problems face new questions as studies show they may lead to bone fractures.
For the full article:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124441273201192297.html