News tagged with diabetes drug
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Research offers new way to target shape-shifting proteins
(PhysOrg.com) -- A molecule which can stop the formation of long protein strands, known as amyloid fibrils, that cause joint pain in kidney dialysis patients has been identified by researchers at the University ...
Aug 28, 2011 |
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US restricts, EU bans controversial diabetes pill (Update)
(AP) -- European regulators ordered the diabetes drug Avandia off the market and the Food and Drug Administration placed stringent restrictions on its use in the United States, saying heart attack risks associated with the ...
Medicine & Health / Medications
Sep 23, 2010 |
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Scientists solve mystery of fragile stem cells
Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute have solved the decade-old mystery of why human embryonic stem cells are so difficult to culture in the laboratory, providing scientists with useful new techniques and moving the ...
Apr 12, 2010 |
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Aspirin-like Drug Could Help Control Diabetes
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at Tulane University School of Medicine are participating in a national study testing the ability of a generic drug called salsalate to control diabetes.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Mar 16, 2010 |
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'Micro shuttle' drug delivery could mean an end to regular dosing
Scientists working at Queen Mary, University of London, have developed micrometer-sized capsules to safely deliver drugs inside living cells.
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Oct 02, 2009 |
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Gut hormone has 'remote control' on blood sugar
A gut hormone first described in 1928 plays an unanticipated and important role in the remote control of blood sugar production in the liver, according to a report in the August 6th Cell Metabolism, a Cell Press publication. What's ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Aug 05, 2009 |
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Simple drug treatment may prevent nicotine-induced SIDS
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study has identified a specific class of pharmaceutical drugs that could be effective in treating babies vulnerable to Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), because their mothers smoked ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jun 03, 2009 |
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New research indicates protein plays role in diabetes
As the prevalence of diabetes has doubled in the U.S. over the past decade, doctors are only now beginning to unravel the complex series of cellular events that cause some people to develop the chronic disease, while others ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Apr 09, 2009 |
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Newer doesn't mean better when it comes to type 2 diabetes drugs
An inexpensive type 2 diabetes drug that has been around for more than 15 years works just as well and has fewer side effects than a half-dozen other, mostly newer and more expensive classes of medication used to control ...
Medicine & Health / Medications
Mar 14, 2011 |
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Novo Nordisk says to market improved insulin in 2013
Danish pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk said Thursday it planned to put a new insulin product on the market by 2013 after tests showed advantages to the widely sold diabetes drug Lantus.
Medicine & Health / Medications
Dec 23, 2010 |
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Combining exenatide with insulin may be 'best result ever' for diabetes patients: UNC expert
A new study finds that combining the newer diabetes drug exenatide with insulin provides better blood sugar control in patients with type 2 diabetes than insulin alone and helps promote weight loss.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Dec 06, 2010 |
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Diabetes drug could work against Alzheimer's
Scientists from Berlin, Bonn and Dundee show in animal models that the diabetes drug metformin has an effect against one of the main causes of the Alzheimer's disease.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Nov 24, 2010 |
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Study compares risk with 2 diabetes drugs
In contrast to previous reports, the risks of the composite endpoint of heart attack, heart failure, both, or death were the same - about 4 percent - for patients taking the diabetes drugs rosiglitazone or pioglitazone, according ...
Medicine & Health / Medications
Aug 24, 2010 |
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FDA issues hold on much-debated Avandia study
(AP) -- Federal health officials are barring new patients from enrolling in a safety study of GlaxoSmithKline's controversial diabetes pill Avandia, a week after a panel of experts ruled that the drug increases ...
Medicine & Health / Medications
Jul 21, 2010 |
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Experimental obesity drug avoids brain effects that troubled predecessors
Stockholm, Sweden: A second-generation experimental anti-obesity and diabetes drug has shown promise in reducing body weight in rodents just as effectively as the predecessor rimonabant while avoiding the risk of psychiatric ...
Medicine & Health / Medications
Jul 12, 2010 |
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