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Welchol Suspension Works in Fruit Juices, Diet Soda Daiichi Sankyo has received U.S. regulatory approval for a new formulation of its diabetes drug Welchol. This new suspension can be mixed with fruit juice and diet soft drinks  The drug lowers blood sugar and LDL cholesterol in patients with type 2 …

Bydureon could be available by Feb or March of 2012 or even sooner. Because Bydureon is the same drug as Byetta (which has been in the market for over 5 years and basically is the same drug) except that Bydureon only needs to be injected once a week instead of …

Takeda announced today that it resubmitted two NDA’s to the FDA for alogliptin and the fixed-dose combination therapy alogliptin/pioglitazone, which combines alogliptin with pioglitazone in a single tablet.…

Hemoglobin A1c level was a better predictor of the risk of CVD than simply using a diagnosis of diabetes to establish risk, a new analysis of two large cohort studies showed….

In women with recent gestational diabetes, alignment of A1c with glucose levels is only “fair”….

Weight-based insulin doses up to 0.6 units per kilogram are associated with a low risk of hypoglycemia, according to a new report….

Most Americans believe that prescription medications are the most effective treatments for many common illnesses, but a Consumer Reports survey of more than 45,000 people finds that three-fourths of us are turning to alternative therapies like yoga and acupuncture….

Dietary fish consumption is linked to a lower risk for type 2 diabetes in men but not in women, according to the results of a prospective study.…

Day-to-day glucose levels that stray too high when tight control is the aim, or too low when therapy isn’t intense, may signal mortality risk, an ACCORD trial subanalysis indicated.…

Boston pediatrician David Ludwig, the center of a media firestorm recently, wants to set the record straight on his view that a state should intervene in the most extreme cases of child obesity.…