FDA Warns Certain Type 2 Diabetes Drugs Can Cause Severe Joint Pain.

reported that the Food and Drug Administration issued a safety alert Friday warning that DPP-IV inhibitors, a commonly used treatment for type 2 diabetes, can cause severe and disabling joint pain. The agency said that while patients should not stop taking the medications, they should contact their physicians if they experience such symptoms, and physicians were instructed to stop prescribing the medications to patients experiencing joint pain. http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/08/28/diabetes-drugs-warning-idUSL1N1131GD20150828