If you have a tendency to keep a keep an eye out for what’s going on in the legal world, then you may have realized the drug Actos has very much been in the limelight recently except for all the wrong reasons due to product liability. Just latterly, a bunch of lawyers Los Angeles have been coming across many shocking stories of the drug and its link with bladder cancer.
So what precisely is Actos utilised for and what is it intended to do?Actos is a drug that is utilized for folk with type two diabetes. It is employed in conjunction with a proper diet and exercise and is designed to improve blood sugar controls in adults.
Actos does this in 2 ways… Firstly it helps the body to make more use of the insulin that it generates and second it inhibits the liver from making excess amount of sugar when it is not required, thus preventing a building up of threatening sugar levels in the blood vessels.
Actos and heart issues
It has been well documented that Actos is not for everyone and in a number of cases can cause or intensify existing cardio issues in patients. In fact a warning on the box of the product tells folk who mean to take the drug that anyone with an existing heart condition, kidney Problems or indeed folks above the age of 80 shouldn’t take this drug and should seek other possible choices.
Bladder cancer
A gang of Los Angeles attorneys who are well versed in handling medical problems explain that in August of last year (2011) a study was carried out by the popular internet site EhealthMe who commissioned a communication into the drug and it’s direct links with bladder cancer.
According to figures contained in the report they make for engaging reading. Out of the many thousands of people that take the drug in the States, 22,515 people have developed heart related complications and 0.22% are reported to have developed bladder cancer. Less that a quarter of one percent doesn’t sound like a lot but when you consider that there are doubtless tens of millions of users worldwide then this figure soon mounts up.
