Generic ActoPlus Met is used for treating type 2 diabetes. It is used along with diet and exercise. It works by decreasing the amount of sugar the liver produces and the intestines absorb.
Generic Avandamet is a combination of two oral diabetes medicines that help control blood sugar levels. It is for people with type 2 diabetes who do not use daily insulin injections.
Generic Avandaryl is a combination of two oral diabetes medicines that help control blood sugar levels. It is for people with type 2 diabetes who do not use daily insulin injections.
Generic Glucovance is used for treating type 2 diabetes. It is used along with diet and exercise. It may be used alone or with other antidiabetic medicine.
Generic Micronase is used for treating type 2 diabetes in patients who cannot control blood sugar levels by diet and exercise alone. It may be used alone or with other antidiabetic medicines.
Generic Prandin is used for managing type 2 (non-insulin-dependent) diabetes. It is used in addition to diet and exercise to lower blood sugar in adults who cannot manage with diet, exercise, or diabetic medications alone. It may be used with other diabetes medicines.
Generic Precose is used for treating type 2 diabetes in adults whose diabetes cannot be managed with diet alone. This medicine may be used alone, in combination with other oral diabetes medicines or with insulin.
Adults with diabetes may now have an alternative to some of the insulin injections they must now take.
Exubera (Pfizer), a powder form of recombinant human insulin, represents the first new method of delivery since the hormone’s discovery in the 1920s. Pfizer developed the drug and dispenser with Sanofi-Aventis and Nektar Therapeutics.
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The FDA has tentatively approved Stavudine for Oral Solution, 1 mg/ml (Aurobindo Pharma Ltd., India). This antiretroviral agent is the first generic version of Generic Zerit Oral Solution (Bristol-Myers Squibb). This child-friendly agent is indicated for pediatric patients with HIV infection, from birth through adolescence.
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The first immune globulin product for subcutaneous injection to prevent serious infections in patients with primary immune deficiency diseases (PIDDs) has been approved.
Vivaglobin (ZLB Behring GmbH, Germany) is manufactured from human plasma collected at U.S. licensed plasma centers. It is given under the skin on a weekly basis via an infusion pump. Patients can self-administer [...]]]...
The Heart Rhythm Society is recommending changes in how medical device manufacturers and the government oversee implanted heart devices, such as defibrillators and pacemakers. The group is requesting that (1) companies use outside experts to help them decide when to issue alerts about potential safety problems; (2) doctors test a heart unit at the time [...]]]...
A study from Oulu University Hospital indicates that aspirin use may double the risk of death in patients with intra-cerebral hemorrhage (ICH). Regular aspirin use was a significant independent predictor of death within the first three months after the index stroke; it was also significantly associated with early hematoma growth.
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