A diabetes drug could help reduce some of the health-threatening side effects of AIDS medications, U.S. researchers said on Monday. They said Avandia can help reduce the odd redistribution of body fat seen when patients take certain cocktails of AIDS drugs and also reduces some of the diabetes-like changes in metabolism. Writing in the Annals of Internal Medicine, a team at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston said they found that daily doses of GlaxoSmithKline’s Avandia, known generically as rosiglitazone, helped patients better handle naturally occurring insulin.
