Maker of Dangerous Diabetes Drug Avandia Settles Injury Suits
GlaxoSmithKline announced on June 2, 2010, that it settled the first civil lawsuit brought by a diabetes sufferer who claimed he had a heart attack after taking Avandia (rosiglitazone). The drugmaker acknowledged that it still faced hundreds of lawsuits in U.S. federal courts despite widespread reports circulated in May that it had settled a group…