Avandia patient? Remain calm.

If you are an Avandia patient who is taking the drug for the treatment of diabetes, there's no urgent need to quit taking the drug, even with recent revelations of heart damage from those that take it.

There's no need to panic, says the doctor who brought up the words about Avandia, and he's joined by other medical experts. In other words, the words "heart damage" should not cause patients to stop taking Avandia out of being scared.

Dr. Steve Nissen, who sounded the alarm on Avandia, said that his findings are valid but must be confirmed by other studies first.