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Diabetes drug Actos banned due to risk of bladder cancer

The popular diabetes drug Actos has been pulled out of the European market after the drug was linked to increased risk of bladder cancer.

The French medicine agency pulled the medicine from the market after the study which was funded by the government, found that the drug increases the risk of bladder cancer. The medicine agency also told the French doctors to stop prescribing the drug. However, the agency said that the patients who are currently using the same should consult their doctors.

The German health officials soon after reviewing the French report followed suit and also pulled the drug from their markets. They tracked the diabetics from 2006-2009 periods.

Manufacturer of the drug medicine, Takeda's vice president of medical and scientific affairs, Robert Spanheimer told that the company hasn't had time to review the French reports, but he said that the two trials which are taking place in the U.S. are yet to show the risk of bladder cancer. The trials also includes a 10 year trial which was started in 2003.

About The Once-A-Day Pill For Diabetes - Actos

Actos is a once-a-day prescription drug for people who have type 2 diabetes. If you combine Actos with a nutritious diet and some good exercising it will help the body to keep a tab on the level of sugar in the blood.

Actos is said to instigate the cell inside the body more receptive to the hormone called insulin which is produced by the pancreas. In fact it is the insulin hormone that makes the cells in the body utilize the sugar in the blood into energy. If the cells are more responsive to insulin, the blood sugar can be transmitted faster into cells where they are really required. So you can say that insulin is the main hormone that prevents the build up of the levels of sugar in the blood. It is when the sugar rises to rather grave levels that the person is termed a severe diabetic.

Actos can be taken by itself or if necessary combined with some other specific diabetic medications like metaformin, sulfonylureas, etc. and when all other trials to reduce the blood sugar levels fail.