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FDA Approves New Type 2 Drug Tradjenta

Thursday, May 12th, 2011 by Chris Frankie

The Food and Drug Administration has approved a new Type 2 diabetes Drug. It’s called Tradjenta and is being jointly marketed by Boehringer Ingelheim and Eli Lilly (more…)

Becton Working to Improve Pump Part Technology

Thursday, May 12th, 2011 by Chris Frankie

Becton Dickinson said that it is developing technology that can deliver insulin in tandem with the artificial pancreas more efficiently (more…)

FDA Rejects Inhalable Insulin Afrezza

Thursday, January 20th, 2011 by Chris Frankie

U.S. regulators have rejected Afrezza, a new, supposedly more effective version of inhalable rapid-acting insulin (more…)

Lilly Pulls Plug on Type 1 Phase III Trial

Friday, October 22nd, 2010 by Chris Frankie

Eli Lilly and MacroGenics announced that they have suspended phase III trials of Protégé, a drug designed to address the autoimmune component in people with Type 1 diabetes (more…)

New Drug Could Prevent Diabetes-Related Amputations: Researchers

Friday, October 22nd, 2010 by Chris Frankie

University of Kansas researchers say they have developed a drug called KU-32 that can prevent some of the more severe complications of diabetes in mice, including amputations of extremities (more…)

FDA Unexpectedly Rejects Once-a-Week Type 2 Drug Bydureon

Wednesday, October 20th, 2010 by Chris Frankie

The FDA surprised many on Wednesday when it declined to approve Amylin Pharmaceuticals’s once-a-week Type 2 diabetes drug Bydureon (more…)

Deals on the Horizon for Drugmaker Sanofi-Aventis

Saturday, September 25th, 2010 by Chris Frankie

Drugmaker Sanofi-Aventis said recently that it will announce “at least another couple” key diabetes-related partnerships in the coming months (more…)

FDA Examining Link Between Actos and Bladder Cancer

Wednesday, September 22nd, 2010 by Chris Frankie

Regulators are examining whether there is a link between Type 2 diabetes drug Actos and bladder cancer (more…)

New Type 2 Drug Meets Trial Goals

Wednesday, September 22nd, 2010 by Chris Frankie

Bristol-Myers Squibb and AstraZeneca recently said that their experimental once-a-day drug dapagliflozin, currently in clinical trials, has proven more effective at lowering blood sugar levels than an older medication (more…)

AstraZeneca Funding Stem-Cell Retinopathy Cure

Monday, September 13th, 2010 by Chris Frankie

AstraZeneca and University College London have formed a research partnership to develop treatments for diabetic retinopathy, or eyesight damage afflicting diabetics (more…)