Dangers of Actos

Avandia is a drug that increases insulin sensitivity. This drug was prescribed to patients with Type 2 diabetes. Some of Avandia’s side effects are that it can cause heart failure, myocardial infarction, and other afflictions. Actos is another drug that increases insulin sensitivity but it is not as likely to cause heart failures… it causes bladder cancer! With this small difference, Avandia is mostly banned in the US, but Actos isn’t. The FDA (Food and Drug Administration) still doesn’t have enough sense to ban Actos. The FDA avoided an interview with CBS news on the topic of Actos.