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  • Medtronic’s Diabetes Unit Gets a Warning Letter from the FDA
    Medtronic has recently notified the public that it received a warning letter from the FDA over quality control concerns at its diabetes unit. Included within that letter were issues related to the corporation’s risk assessment, its propensity for device recalls, and the way it handles complaints t...
  • Diabetes Drug Recalled Over NDMA Contamination
    The metformin recalls that have plagued the diabetes drug industry for the past year continue as yet another company’s formulation of the drug has tested positive for a human carcinogen. The debacle started in 2020 when lots of metformin from Teva Pharmaceuticals and Sun Pharmaceuticals both teste...
  • Diabetes Drug Invokana No Longer Carries Boxed Warning
    When the FDA made the decision to give Johnson & Johnson’s diabetes drug Invokana a black box warning in 2017, one would like to believe that the decision was not made lightly. The boxed warning is the strongest warning the agency can issue for a drug on the US healthcare market and indicates ...
  • Diabetes Drug Linked to Flesh-Eating Genital Infection
    Diabetic patients taking Invokana, Farxiga, or Jardiance are on alert over reports that these SGLT2 inhibitors could possibly cause a potentially lethal flesh-eating infection of the genitals. Bloomberg recently reported that SGLT2 inhibitor-induced Fourneir’s gangrene was observed in a dozen pati...
  • Trouble for Diabetes Drug Makers?
    Known as SGLT2 inhibitors for short, sodium glucose co-transporter 2 inhibitors are a class of drugs intended for certain individuals with Type II diabetes. The drugs prevent glucose from being absorbed in the kidneys and reduce glucose in the blood by causing it to be expelled in the urine. Unfor...
  • New Year, New Focus on Managing Your Diabetes
    It’s a new year and if you’re like most, you’re considering at least one way that you might try to improve your life as we move through 2017. For many, that also means considering how they can better manage their health and wellness; including how they’re treating their diabetes. As the numb...
  • Invokana May Actually Increase Risk of Diabetes Amputations
    The effects of diabetes on a patient’s body are numerous and wide-ranging. In some cases, the inability to regulate insulin production is the only impact and is resolved in a seemingly simple way. Injection, diet, or an insulin pump that be used to take over sugar regulation for the diabetic. In o...
  • Have Diabetes? You Might Want to Consider Pumping Iron.
    Diabetics have long-since known that managing their health and well-being is a critical part of the overall management of their disease. Maintaining proper dietary intakes, monitoring insulin and sugar levels, and exercising have been staples of diabetic treatment for a long time. Interestingly, wei...
  • Novo Nordisk Diabetes Drugs Receive FDA Approval
    The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved two of Novo Nordisk’s diabetes drugs for sale in the United States. The Danish pharmaceutical company can now market insulin drugs Tresiba and Ryzodeg with a warning that the drugs should not be used in patients with high blood ketone levels...
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