A Bloomberg story says two relatively new diabetes medicines – Merck’s Januvia and Eli Lilly’s Byetta – don’t work any better than less expensive drugs that were already on the market.
A month’s supply of Januvia costs $163.99, or almost $5.50 a pill, Bloomberg says. And a single cartridge of the injected Byetta costs $200.
The 2007 article cites a review if 29 studies, which found the drugs are no more effective ...
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