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New Page Here: Drugs for Diabetes

This is the best time in history to have diabetes.  Thanks to the advancement of science, supported by the profit motive and a degree of free market economics, we now have 10 classes of drugs to help...

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Drug Review: Insulin

Insulin is life-saving for type 1 diabetics.  Many type 2 diabetics will eventually, if not at the outset, need to take insulin for adequate control of blood sugars, which should help prevent diabetes...

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Drug Review: GLP-1 Analogues (exenatide and liraglutide)

GLP-1 analogues available in the U.S. are exenatide (sold as Byetta and Bydureon) and liraglutide (sold as Victoza).  They are sometimes referred to as GLP-1 receptor agonists.  They are not considered...

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Oral Drugs for Type 2 Diabetes: Which Are The Best?

A guideline committee established by the American College of Physicians recently reviewed oral medications for treatment of type 2 diabetes.  Assuming blood sugars were still too high after diet and...

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Narrowing Down Your Choice of Diabetes Drugs

We now have 12 classes of drugs for the treatment of diabetes. How does your doctor choose which ones to use? It’s easy for type 1 diabetes: insulin. Type 2’s have more options. Earlier this year I...

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What’s Wrong With Drugs for Diabetes?

MedPageToday has an article on the “Bittersweet Diabetes Economy” talking about the cost of treating diabetes, Big Pharma influence on diagnosis and treatment of diabetes and prediabetes, and the...

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Does Big Pharma Have Too Much Influence on Diabetes Management?

MedPageToday has a series of articles looking at socioeconomic issues related to diabetes drugs that have come onto the market in the last decade. They call it their Diabetes Drugs Investigation. I...

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Which Diabetes Drugs Cause Hypoglycemia?

Hypoglycemia—aka low blood sugar—can kill you. The most common cause is medications taken by people with diabetes. DRUGS THAT RARELY, IF EVER, CAUSE HYPOGLYCEMIA Diabetics not being treated with pills...

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Are These Two Diabetes Drugs Better Than the Others?

The two drugs in question are empagliflozin (aka Jardiance) and liraglutide (aka Victoza). Both are used to treat type 2 diabetes, not type 1. A major problem we have with most diabetes drugs is that...

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Introducing Tresiba (insulin degludec): a New Long-Acting Basal Insulin

Tresiba joins other long-acting insulins like insulin glargine (Lantus), insulin detemir (Levemir), and good ol’ NPH insulin. It was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration this year; it’s...

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