New treatment provides up to 24-hour duration of action for growing patient population. Detemir®(Insulin Detemir) will be competition for Lantus®

Pargluva® made by Merck and Co. Inc. and Bristol-Myers Squibb, may be delayed in coming to market by 2 years if additional safety studies are required by the FDA.

A history of type 2 diabetes is not associated with more aggressive prostate cancer, but it does predict worse long-term survival from the disease.

That’s 3 Extra Miles a Day. Pedometers may help couch potatoes get sorely needed exercise.

Those in the Byetta group lost about 5 pounds, whereas patients in the insulin glargine group gained about 4 pounds.

Higher Doses of Acetaminophen and Nonsteroidal Anti-inflammatories,Increases Risk of Hypertension in Women According to two prospective cohort studies, those women that used higher doses then 500ng per day of acetaminophen and similar doses of ibuprofen, ,independently increased the risk of hypertension.

Patients With Liver Disease May Risk Further Liver Damage, Says FDA.

Investigators report that beta-blockers are no better at preventing heart attacks in patients with hypertension than other agents, and are less effective at preventing strokes.

Patients having a colonoscopy often object to the bowel prep most of all, and now it appears that there’s another good reason to dislike it.

According to the results of the study, men with type 2 diabetes should have testosterone levels measured more frequently.