Buse claims GSK made threats over Avandia
June 6, 2007
The recent controversy over Avandia deepened today when Dr. John Buse [pictured at left from a press photo], a medical expert in diabetes, came forward with clams that GlaxoSmithKline tried to silence him when he questioned the drug’s safety.
Buse claims that he received telephone calls from GSK executives when drug went on sale in 1999. he said [Glaxo] were claiming that his “actions were scurrilous enough to attempt to hold me liable for a loss in market capitalization”.
Dr. Buse brought the threats of legal action public in a written statement that was then submitted to a congressional hearing on Avandia’s safety. After the GSK made the alleged threats, He signed a statement drafted by Glaxo to appease Shareholders who were concerned about his warnings.
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