News tagged with sitagliptin
Popular diabetes treatment could trigger pancreatitis, pancreatic cancer
A drug widely used to treat Type 2 diabetes may have unintended effects on the pancreas that could lead to a form of low-grade pancreatitis in some patients and a greater risk of pancreatic cancer in long-term users, UCLA ...
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Apr 30, 2009 |
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A diabetes drug, sitagliptin, also has a potential to prevent diabetes
Diabetes type 2 is caused by insufficient levels of insulin to keep blood glucose under control. Excessive levels of another hormone, glucagon, can also contribute to diabetes type 2 by causing the liver to flood the body ...
Medicine & Health / Medications
Mar 24, 2011 |
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New 'Heroes of Chemistry' invented medicines that help millions of people
The script for two research teams inducted today into the American Chemical Society (ACS) scientific "hall of fame" ― the ACS Heroes of Chemistry ― is a tale of two pills. One team invented a medication that helps ...
Aug 23, 2010 |
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Injected liraglutide is better than oral sitagliptin for blood glucose control in type 2 diabetes
Injections of liraglutide are better than oral sitagliptin at controlling blood glucose levels in people with type 2 diabetes who have inadequate control on the standard treatment metformin. The findings appear in an Article ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Apr 22, 2010 |
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Stem cell transplantation helps patients with diabetes become insulin free
The majority of patients with type 1 diabetes who underwent a certain type of stem cell transplantation became insulin free, several for more than three years, with good glycemic control, and also increased C-peptide levels, ...
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Apr 14, 2009 |
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Drug marketing techniques may be risking patient safety
With new drugs being reviewed by regulatory agencies and then released onto the market faster than ever before, patients' safety is being compromised, warns a study published on bmj.com today.
Dec 03, 2008 |
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Cost of diabetes treatment nearly doubled since 2001
Because of the increased number of patients, growing reliance on multiple medications and the shift toward more expensive new medicines, the annual cost of diabetes drugs nearly doubled in only six years, rising from $6.7 ...
Oct 27, 2008 |
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FDA approves new diabetes treatment
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the use of Januvia tablets as the first in a new class of diabetes drugs.
Medicine & Health / Medications
Oct 17, 2006 |
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