Dr. Steven Nissen considers himself a watchdog of the Food and Drug Administration. In 2007, he wrote a paper in the New England Journal of Medicine, which showed that the agency knew that patients who took the diabetes drug Avandia had a higher rate of heart attacks.
Steven Nissen appears in the following:
Expert Advice for a Healthy Heart
Friday, February 12, 2010
26 percent of American deaths are related to heart disease. Diseases that our guest, Dr. Steve Nissen, chair of cardiovascular medicine at the Cleveland Clinic, says are largely avoidable. With an eye on President Clinton’s recent hospitalization, we examine some of the factors that make Americans such high-risk candidates for terminal heart disease.
America's Briefing Book: Redesigning the FDA
Friday, January 16, 2009
Scandals like Avandia in 2007 and the recent recall of generic drugs from India have some people wondering if the Food and Drug Administration has been sampling too many free pharmac...
