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• FDA warning on Byetta spooked investors
  A report on the blog FiercePharma says that a more stringent warning label for the diabetes drug Byetta spooked some investors when the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued it in 2008. At the time, Byetta manufacturers Eli Lilly and Amylin Pharmaceuticals had been in the process of developing a ...

• Diet and exercise program treats diabetics
  An article in Forbes describes a diabetes treatment program from Omada Health, which is based on diet and exercise. Author Zina Moukheiber says the program has already yielded some astounding results for participants. Omada co-founder Sean Duffy based the program on a 2002 study from the National In...

• FDA says Januvia ‘misbranded’ because of late study
  A report on the blog Pharmalot says the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has ruled that pharmaceutical company Merck was nearly two years late with a mandated study of its Januvia and Janument diabetes medications. The FDA had instructed to Merck to conduct a post-marketing study after the agency r...

• Medical journals print biased studies
  An article in the Washington Post says major medical journals routinely print studies over which pharmaceutical companies can exert major influence. That company influence “has become a common practice that reflects the growing role of industry money in research,” the article says. As an example...

• Study: Younger people suffering stroke
  New research indicates that strokes are affecting younger people when compared with rates 20 years ago, according to a story on WEKU Public Radio out of Kentucky. The study was published in the online issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology, and examined occurren...

• Advice for people who had a stroke
  The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention provides some advice for people who have suffered a stroke. According to the CDC, post-stroke care may involve emergency care, treatment to prevent another stroke, or some combination of the three. A stroke may occur when a blood vessel bursts in t...

• CDC lists different types of stroke
  According to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about 85 percent of all strokes are “ischemic.” That means the blood flow to the brain is blocked – either by blood clots, or by fatty deposits in blood vessel linings called plaque. Risk factors for stroke include high blood...

• Risk factors for urinary incontinence
  According to the Mayo Clinic, there are a number of risk factors for urinary incontinence. Although urinary incontinence can be a distressing and inconvenient condition, it is treatable with options that include surgery, medication and physical therapy. But some treatments, such as transvaginal mesh...

• Critics: EU medical device plan falls short
  European Union officials are considering more stringent regulations for medical devices. But according to a report on MedPage Today, some European health advocates complain that the proposed regulations wouldn’t go far enough. The report quotes Andrew Boulton, MD, president of the European Associa...

• EU considering tougher rules for medical devices
  European Union officials are calling for stricter rules governing the safety and monitoring of medical devices, Reuters reports. The proposals come in the wake of a global scandal in which hundreds of thousands of women around the world received breast implants prone to rupture and leaking, made by ...