- April 27, 2009
The latest CDC information about the swine flu outbreak is posted at their website, at
Human Swine Influenza Investigation.
- April 20, 2009
Diabetics are increasingly risking life and limb by cutting back on - or even going without - doctor visits, insulin, medicines and blood-sugar testing as they lose income and health insurance in the recession, an Associated Press analysis has found.
[Story at msnbc.com: Diabetics risking life and limb amid recession:
Patients increasingly cutting back on insulin and medical care, report finds.]
- April 13, 2009
Treatment with the glitazone class of diabetes drugs (
(Avandia
and Actos)
leads to a "modest" increase in the risk of diabetic macular edema-a common complication that can lead to vision loss.
Glitazone Use Associated with Diabetic Macular Edema.
American Journal of Ophthalmology
Volume 147, Issue 4, Pages 583-586 (April 2009).
[Story at ScienceDaily.
Abstract at
AJO;
full text at
AJO, requires subscription.]
- April 6, 2009
Two new drugs for diabetes got their turn before a Food and Drug Administration advisory panel this week, although with different results.
On April 1, 2009, the FDA Endocrinologic and Metabolic Drugs Advisory Committee voted 10 to 2 that the investigational diabetes drug saxagliptin (Onglyza, Bristol-Myers Squibb/AstraZeneca, a potential competitor for
Januvia) does not
put
type 2 diabetes
patients at an increased risk for cardiovascular events.
The next day, liraglutide (Victoza, Novo Nordisk, a potential competitor for
Byetta) didn't fare as well when the
advisory panel declined to recommend approval
It was a thyroid cancer signal that emerged in animal studies that worried the panel.
[Story at theheart.org:
Saxagliptin gets favorable FDA panel review, while liragutide not recommended for approval.
Briefing documents are at the FDA website:
Endocrinologic and Metabolic Drugs Advisory Committee.]
- April 1, 2009
Smiths Medical announced its intent to stop
manufacturing and selling the Deltec Cozmo® insulin pump.
[Information at www.delteccozmoupdate.com.]
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