Sandoz Canada has recalled its health product glimepiride, which is used to treat diabetes, over the mislabeling of boxes. The mislabeling has occurred on outer carton of the product, which shows as containing 1mg tablets, while the ...
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Children who are critically ill after having heart surgery do not benefit from having their blood sugar levels aggressively controlled, but some kids with other life-threatening conditions might, a new study suggests. Experts said the ...
Tags: Blood Sugar, Blood Sugar Control, Ill Kids
FDA has recently given Class I status to a recall of Abbott Laboratories' FreeStyle and FreeStyle Lite test strips, which indicates that the products could cause serious injury or death. Abbott voluntarily recalled the strips because they ...
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Better diabetes treatment has slashed rates of complications such as heart attacks, strokes and amputations in older adults, a new study shows. "All the event rates, if you look at them, everything is a lot better than it was in the ...
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Biodel, a specialty pharmaceutical company, has announced a long-term supply agreement with Becton, Dickinson and Company, a medical technology company, for worldwide exclusive rights to the novel and proprietary BD Uniject SCF disposable ...
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Sanofi has released results of a 24-week Phase IIIb clinical trial showing that Lyxumia (lixisenatide) met the primary endpoint of non-inferiority in blood sugar lowering (HbA1c) when administered to patients either before breakfast or the ...
Tags: Diabetes Drug, Medicine
Japan-based Takeda Pharma has received positive CHMP opinion for its three new type 2 diabetes therapies from the European Medicines Agency (EMA) Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP). The therapies include Vipidia ...
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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a Class I recall of Medtronic’s MiniMed Paradigm Insulin Infusion Sets. The Paradigm infusion sets are meant for use with Paradigm insulin infusion pumps. These infusion sets are ...
US-based Medtronic's sensor-augmented insulin pump with Threshold Suspend feature safely reduces nocturnal hypoglycemia without affecting glycated hemoglobin level (HbA1C), a study results show. Threshold Suspend, which is claimed to be ...
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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 ...
The US food and drug administration (FDA) has approved Janssen's Invokana (canagliflozin) for the treatment of adults with type 2 diabetes. Invokana is the oral, once-daily medication available in the US demonstrating improved glycemic ...
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted to review Sanofi's new drug application (NDA) of lixisenatide, a once-daily a glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonist (GLP-1 RA), for the treatment of adults with type 2 diabetes ...
The US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has granted a notice of allowance (NOA) to Hygieia's claims related to Diabetes Insulin Guidance system (DIGS) technology. The patent covers a system which automatically optimizes a patient's ...
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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared Dexcom's new continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) system. The G4 PLATINUM system comprises a tiny sensor which is inserted by the user under the skin on the abdomen and a transmitter ...
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