Lessons from the Avandia controversy: a new paradigm for the development of drugs to treat type 2 diabetes.

Diabetes Care

Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA.

Published: December 2007

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