Nutrition Dried fruits retain most of the nutritional value of fresh fruits, and so are included with fresh fruit in dietary recommendations by U.S. and world health agencies. The specific nutrient content of the different dried fruits ...
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A year after receiving approval by the Food and Drug Administration, the new weight-loss drug Belviq is finally available by prescription. But you may not want to rush out and get it. It's only approved for people who are obese, with a ...
Eisai has announced the availability of Belviq (lorcaserin HCl) CIV tablets in the US, which is designed for chronic weight management in adults who are overweight with a comorbidity or obesity. Indicated for people with body mass ...
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The USFDA has granted priority review designation for investigational agent Metreleptin, jointly developed by Bristol-Myers Squibb Company and AstraZeneca, for the treatment of metabolic disorders associated with rare forms of ...
Valeritas, insulin delivery devices maker, has announced that it has closed a structured debt financing with Capital Royalty which will provide the company with about $100m in order to further commercialize V-Go. Designed to be easier to ...
MannKind has completed the Phase 3 clinical study of Afrezza (insulin human [rDNA origin]) in patients with type 1 diabetes and expects to release the data in the summer of 2013. Administered using MannKind's next-generation inhaler, the ...
Perhaps prompted by all the ads for drugs such as AndroGel 1.62% and Axiron, many men attribute their lagging libido to reduced testosterone levels. But stress, depression, lack of sleep or exercise, work load, or changed feelings about ...
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While there are many feeding options for babies, including nursing, plastic bottles, glass bottles, bottle liners and disposable bottles, most baby bottles on the market today are constructed from plastic materials. Plastic bottles, like ...
Are formula cans and plastic baby bottles safe? The linings of formula cans and polycarbonate (a type of plastic) baby bottles contain the chemical bisphenol A (or BPA). While there's little scientific data on the effects of BPA on ...
Finnish diabetes technology company Mendor has entered into partnership with Europe-based diagnostics company A. Menarini Diagnostics for distribution of its blood glucose monitoring system. Under the terms of the agreement, Mendor's ...
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GlucoMen, a brand of A.Menarini Diagnostics, has introduced a new smartphone app GlucoLog Lite to maintain a complete record of patients' blood glucose history without paper logbook. The GlucoLog Lite app records the results of all the ...
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US-based contract research organization WCCT Global has announced that it is focusing more on diabetes clinical trials, with rise of the disease. For several years now, WCCT Global has been developing a patient database and has had a ...
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has given its approval for the marketing of Roche's Cobas Integra 800 Tina-quant HbA1cDx assay for the diagnosis of diabetes. Presently available in the market, the HbA1c tests, or A1c tests are ...
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Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma is seeking manufacturing and marketing approval of TA-7284 (generic name: canagliflozin) in Japan. The company filed a new drug application to the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare in Japan for TA-7284 to ...
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Global healthcare company Novo Nordisk has announced plans to launch its obesity treatment drug, liraglutide, in the US by the end of 2014. Novo chief scientific officer Mads Thomsen was quoted by health24.com as saying that liraglutide ...
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