V.A. Is Limiting Use of Diabetes Drug
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The decision by the Department of Veterans Affairs is likely to further reduce sales of Avandia, which have fallen steeply since a medical journal questioned the drugâs safety.
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NEW YORK  - When a child develops diabetes,  it's critical to know if it's the type that requires insulin  treatment or the other version that can be controlled with diet  and exercise.
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Millions of adults at high risk of diabetes could ward off the disease by taking a drug commonly used to treat it, according to the largest diabetes prevention study yet conducted.
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Diabetes patients could soon be able to take a pill to control their condition instead of repeated injections.
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For people with type 2 diabetes, taking an inhaled form of insulin before meals and a single daily injection of long-acting insulin provides blood sugar control comparable to that of a conventional all-injection insulin regimen, researchers report.
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FRIDAY, May 25 (HealthDay News) -- Treatment of elderly patients with type 1 and type 2 diabetes in U.S. nursing homes often fails to meet American Diabetes Association standards, according to a new study.
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Many patients stop taking their medicine far sooner than they should, researchers say, and that decision can be deadly when the drugs treat heart disease or diabetes.
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An early analysis from an ongoing study of GlaxoSmithKline Plc's Avandia was unable to show whether there was any increase in heart attacks among patients, but several experts said the evidence still suggested the popular diabetes drug raised the risk of heart attack.
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People suffering from the most common form of diabetes could sharply cut their risk for heart attacks and strokes by taking a cholesterol-lowering drug even if they have normal cholesterol levels, according to a major new study.
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Doctors in the United States have shunned GlaxoSmithKline Plc's diabetes drug Avandia since a study was published last week linking the drug to heart-attack risk, according to daily prescription data.
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Giving cholesterol-lowering statin drugs to people with type 2 diabetes prevents heart attack and stroke and saves lives, even if they don&#39;t have high cholesterol, a new study finds.
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December 30 (HeartCenterOnline) - Diabetics with advanced heart failure who are treated with insulin are faced with a mortality rate that is four times higher than patients treated with oral medications.
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Patients with diabetes,  especially women, who take thiazolidinediones, which include  commonly prescribed drugs such as Avandia and Actos, may have  an increased risk of developing cancer, according to a new  report.
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Obese subjects ate nearly 1,000  fewer calories per day when they injected pramlintide, a drug  approved for the treatment of insulin-dependent diabetes,  before every meal, a new study shows.
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A new class of diabetes drugs touted by drugmakers was moderately effective in controlling blood sugar levels without adding extra weight, but more long-term data are needed before the drugs should be widely embraced, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday.
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The US Food and Drug Administration Thursday said people should limit their use of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug products. The FDA issued a Public Health Advisory about the use of NSAIDs, including
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The Food and Drug Administration recommended Thursday that doctors limit prescriptions for the popular pain pills Celebrex and Bextra because recent