Actos, an anti-diabetic drug prescribed for type 2 diabetes, and sometimes for pre-diabetes and (off label) for polycystic ovarian syndrome in women, has been linked again to the dangerous side effect of possibly increasing the risk of bladder cancer.
Amy Tenderich, a well respected blogger about diabetes wrote an article worth reading, "10 Reasons Why the Actos Pre-Diabetes study is Dumb.". I want to point out that the Actos study is not an isolated "dumb" study. Her article also prompted me to want to point out something that really…