I am dismayed that there has been no outcry about this. Not even any other news reports. I have diabetes as one of my personalized topics on Google News is how I saw it. Remember the stink about previous drugs, such as Vioxx? I guess amputations for diabetes are seen as business as usual.


My mother watches cable news every day and Invokana is advertised there every morning. No change in their list of side effects and warning yet. I suppose the lawyers are on the job trying to block it or water it down. I hope their stock price took a momentary hit at least!

Incidentally, I would say this result is just another indictment of the idea of lowering blood sugar not being what it's all about. I'm a little curious about why the increased risk of amputations, what the mechanism is, but I probably wouldn't understand the science even if I knew it.