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Diabetic medications are expensive and essential in good treatment and plans of care…
The Together Rx Access® Program, a free prescription savings program created by leading pharmaceutical companies that is enrolling about 10,000 people every week, has reached its 1.5 million cardholders milestone. The Program, introduced in January of 2005, allows cardholders to access immediate and meaningful savings […]
Saturday, Sanofi-Aventis (SNY: News, Chart, Quote ), a provider of healthcare products worldwide, said its new injectable diabetes compound AVE0010, a GLP-1 agonist, was well tolerated and significantly improved glycemic control compared to placebo in type 2 diabetes patients inadequately controlled with metformin alone.
This was interesting to me. I […]
Johnson & Johnson’s Regranex, a prescription foot jell which is used to treat refractory leg and foot ulcers in patients with diabetes, is now being given the black box warning from the US FDA.
The updated warning states that patients who use three or more tubes of the gel over two years are five times more […]
Aspirin has been around forever and is still a miracle drug of sorts. What is one of our first lines of defense when people infarct? Four baby aspirin. What do we use to help prevent stroke? Aspirin. And now aspirin-like compounds can claim yet another huge health benefit- increasing the amount of insulin produced by […]
Bitter melon… have you heard of it? It is an old Chinese traditional medicine, not to mention vegetable. Researchers took about a ton of this very beautiful green veggie and extracted pulp to study on a molecular level how it aids in type 2 diabetes.
Here is how it works- it is quite fascinating.
Exercise activates AMPK […]
Ecstasy, LSD, magic mushrooms and Cannabis… could they one day be legal prescriptions used to fight such diseases as diabetes? This all sounds crazy, huh? Researchers in the US and Europe are hoping that this is possible and that new types of science will prove it.
The cannabis-based medicine Sativex uses fewer psychoactive cannabinoids and […]
Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy! We might just have a new type of oral diabetes treatment. It is derived from yeast and yes, that did make me giggle since yeast is in bread and bread is carbs and carbs turns to sugar and… you get my point.
It is called glucose tolerance factor, GTF, and […]
I have shared in the past that one of my guilty pleasures in life is perusing the website Perez Hilton for all the important news in and around Hollywood, hahaha. I was joking on the important part… Well, one of my other very embarrassing, as my husband calls it, lil’ pleasures in life is my […]
America’s tweens more than doubled their use of type-2 diabetes medications between 2002 and 2005, with girls between 10 and 14 years of age showing a 166 percent increase. The likely cause: Obesity, which is closely associated with Type 2 diabetes.
This is so darn scary! Oh, we have to do something now about this epidemic […]
Just a little reminder for those that reside in the US, I am not certain about time frames in other countries, that it is time to receive your Influenza and Pneumococcal Immunization/Vaccine.
Yes, if you hadn’t already guessed diabetics are in the “persons at risk” category. Make your appointment today and save yourself some troubles down […]
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