By Elaine ChenDec. 7, 2022 Reprints PATRICK SISON/AP Touted by celebrities, raved about by TikTok users, and advertised by med spas, a new class of drugs for treating diabetes and obesity has exploded in popularity for its weight-loss effects, leading to rippling shortages across several of the medications. Amid the surge in demand, Eli Lilly and...
By Raghav Mahobe and Nandhini Srinivasan Nov 18 (Reuters) – Provention Bio Inc (PRVB.O) has priced its diabetes drug teplizumab at $13,850 a vial, it said on Friday, a day after receiving U.S. approval and far higher than some analysts’ expectations. The company’s shares reversed course from premarket gains to trade down nearly 12% as the high pricing stoked fears...
CLEVELAND CLINIC October 11, 2022, CLEVELAND: Cleveland Clinic researchers have identified a common diabetes medication, metformin, as a possible treatment for atrial fibrillation. The study, published in Cell Reports Medicine, built on ongoing collaborative Cleveland Clinic research to support further investigation into metformin as a drug repurposing candidate. Researchers used advanced computation and genetic sequencing...
by Karolinska Institutet Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Mechanisms associated with a particular diabetes drug can also help to protect against Alzheimer’s disease, a study by researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden and published in Neurology reports. The results indicate that the drug’s target protein could be an interesting candidate for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease. Alzheimer’s disease...
Jonathan Gardner Senior Reporter Eli Lilly & Co. The Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved Eli Lilly’s diabetes drug Mounjaro, a first-of-its-kind treatment that can help control patients’ blood sugar and, potentially, help them lose weight as well. Mounjaro, also known as tirzepatide, expands Lilly’s diabetes business, which includes insulins as well as other...
According to a new study by Stanford Medicine investigators and their collaborators in Denmark, boys were more likely to be born with genital birth defects if their fathers took the commonly prescribed diabetes drug metformin three months before conception. The finding adds to a limited but growing understanding of how paternal factors can affect children’s health. “For...
Jonathan Gardner Senior Reporter Eli Lilly & Co. Dive Brief: Eli Lilly and Boehringer Ingelheim’s drug Jardiance kept clinical trial participants with kidney disease from needing dialysis or a transplant, the companies announced Wednesday, a finding that cements the diabetes pill’s potential as a treatment for a wider array of metabolic diseases. The trial was expected...
A medication typically used for treating diabetes, glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1 RA), could also be used to prevent cardiovascular disease and major cardiovascular events, but a new study showed inequities in its use based on race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status. Looking at four years of data, researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at...
by Amanda Ferguson, University of Toronto Metformin 500mg tablets. Credit: public domain A widely used and inexpensive type 2 diabetes drug, once hoped to hold enormous promise in treating breast cancer, does not prevent or stop the spread of the most common forms of the disease, according to new research. The study, which has yet...
by American Society of Nephrology Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Clinical trial data reveal that dapagliflozin— a sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 inhibitor prescribed to treat diabetes—reduces the rate of kidney function decline in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD). The findings will be presented at ASN Kidney Week 2021 November 4–November 7. The DAPA-CKD trial randomized 4,304...
