With no clear guidelines, recommendations are all over the map:
“Patients have asked questions about Avandia,” said Dr. Patrick Cogley, a primary care doctor in Iowa. “I have told them to continue taking their Avandia.”
Cogley added, though, that he has not given out any new prescriptions for Avandia, and a committee in his practice is further investigating the drug’s safety.
Dr. Stanley Mirsky has taken an opposite approach. An endocrinologist at New York City’s Lenox Hill Hospital, he said, “In my practice, I have stopped Avandia.”
Mirsky said he is substituting other diabetes medications for Avandia.
