Topic: GlaxoSmithKline plc

FDA panel of advisers backs GlaxoSmithKline seizure drug, despite side effectsFederal health advisers have ruled that GlaxoSmithKline's epilepsy drug Potiga effectively controls seizures.An agency spokeswoman said Wednesday the Food and Drug Administration's panel of neurologists voted unanimously that company studies showed the ...

Drugs used by millions of patients to control epileptic seizures must carry warnings about heightened risks of suicide, federal regulators said Tuesday.The Food and Drug Administration announcement comes almost a year after the agency first said patients taking the drugs have a ...

An unpublished, negative article about the diabetes drug Avandia was leaked to the drug's manufacturer before the article was published in the New England Journal of Medicine.. Diabetes expert Dr. Steven M. Haffner of the University of Texas Health Science Center faxed ...