Search Results for "diabetes"
- Prevalence of Diabetes Continues to Worsen
When most people hear an alarm, their first instinct is to determine if their lives are in jeopardy. When a fire alarm goes off, you quickly try to determine the extent and location of the fire. When the emergency broadcast system conducts a test you listen to find out if it is a test or if somethin...
- New Implantable Diabetes Pump Outperforms Januvia
Intarcia Therapeutics Inc. has released clinical research that, according to the company’s CEO, shows that their new diabetes pump will have “broad appeal in the market.” Intarcia, a private biotech firm from Boston, reported that their new implantable pump, called ITCA 650, performed better i...
- New SGLT2 Inhibitor Joins Troubled Class of Diabetes Drugs
According to a Nasdaq report, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Eli Lilly and Boehringer Ingelheim’s new type 2 diabetes drug, Synjardy. Synjardy is the latest in a new line of diabetes medications known as sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors, called SGLT2 inhibitors ...
- Organized Programs Found to be Effective in Fighting Diabetes
A recently published review found evidence that organized diet and exercise programs designed to prevent diabetes may truly be helpful in delaying or preventing the disease. The report was published in the Annals of Internal Medicine and reported by Reuters.
The findings of this study on diabetes pr...
- Preventing Diabetes with a Pill?
When we think about clinical trials we think about sterile rooms filled with people wearing white coats and carrying tablet computers. Sometimes it’s hard to remember that there are patients on the other side of those trials – patients who want nothing more than for the trial to go well.
In ...
- FDA Issues Warning for Type-II Diabetes Medications
Yet another warning regarding dangerous side effects associated with approved medications has been issued by the FDA.
Three specific drugs developed for the treatment of Type-II diabetes have been singled out for their capacity to cause a dangerous blood condition.
Patients taking canagliflozin, dap...
- Number of New Diabetes Diagnoses Strongly Increase After Medicaid Expansion
After a number of states expanded their Medicaid eligibility to include low-income adults, the number of new diabetes diagnoses also increased. A study in Diabetes Care talks about how expansion of Medicaid eligibility has had a big effect on the availability of healthcare to patients in vulnerable ...
- FDA: AstraZeneca’s Diabetes Drug Onglyza May Pose Increased Risk of Death
A new FDA report has concluded that AstraZeneca’s new diabetes drug Onglyza may be associated with an increased risk of death, Reuters reports.
This is not the first time AstraZeneca has come under scrutiny for its anti-diabetic drugs. As early as 2008, the FDA began receiving reports of hemorrhag...
- CDC Estimates 40 Percent of Americans Will Develop Type II Diabetes
New data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows a dramatic increase in the percentage of Americans who are predicted to develop diabetes at some point in their lives. An article by HealthDay News reports the findings of the CDC study that were published August 13, 2014 in Th...
