CORRECTED: Bristol-Myers drug raises blood sugar risk: study

Please substitute “blood sugar” for “diabetes” in headline.
In first paragraph, please read… Tequin can have “life
threatening” side effects including low blood sugar… instead
of …Tequin can have “life threatening” side effects including
serious diabetes…. Also delete in the first paragraph…
which urged doctors to stop prescribing it. In the second
paragraph please read… were 17 times more likely to develop
high blood sugar… instead of… were 17 times more likely to
develop serious diabetes.

BOSTON (Reuters) – The Bristol Myers Squibb Co. antibiotic
Tequin can have “life threatening” side effects including low
blood sugar, according to a Canadian study on Wednesday.

Elderly people who took Tequin were 17 times more likely to
develop high blood sugar than if they took another antibiotic,
and were four times more likely to be hospitalized for low
blood sugar, the study found.

The study was to be published in The New England Journal of
Medicine on March 30 but it was released early because of its
important public health implications, the journal said.