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Paula Deen pledges money to diabetes association

(AP) -- Celebrity chef Paula Deen on Wednesday pledged a portion of her earnings from a lucrative endorsement deal with a diabetes drugmaker to the nonprofit American Diabetes Association.

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Novo Nordisk pays $26.7 million to settle claims

Danish drug company Novo Nordisk has agreed to pay $25 million to settle allegations that it promoted the misuse of blood clotting drug NovoSeven, the US Justice Department announced Friday.

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FDA notes heart events, tumors with Novo drug

(AP) -- Federal health officials say a potential blockbuster diabetes drug from Novo Nordisk appears to work. But they say questions remain about its effect on the heart and other organs.

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Amylin's long-delayed diabetes drug gets FDA nod

Amylin Pharmaceuticals won approval Friday for its long-delayed diabetes drug Bydureon, a next-generation treatment that requires fewer injections than the company's 7-year old diabetes medicine, Byetta.

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Studies document widespread, risky use clotting drug on non-hemophilia patients

In fact, the studies estimate that only 4 percent of the powerful drug's use in U.S. hospitals from 2000 through 2008 was for treating hemophilia patients, while an enormous 96 percent involved cases of heart surgery, trauma, ...

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created Apr 18, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Senate bill aims to combat pharmaceutical theft

(AP) -- Law enforcement officials would have more leeway to pursue and punish criminals who steal prescription pharmaceuticals under a proposal introduced Tuesday by Senate lawmakers.

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Novo Nordisk says to market improved insulin in 2013

Danish pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk said Thursday it planned to put a new insulin product on the market by 2013 after tests showed advantages to the widely sold diabetes drug Lantus.

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created Dec 23, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Experts advocate realigning type 2 diabetes treatments with disease's natural history

A new consensus statement published in the September, 2010, issue of The Endocrine Society's Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism (JCEM) finds that the increasing recognition that beta-cell failure occurs much e ...

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created Oct 06, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Company decision to pull diabetes drug could add GBP9 million to NHS drugs bill

Drug company Novo Nordisk's decision to pull its Mixtard 30 insulin drug from the UK could add GBP9 million to the NHS drugs bill in England alone, says an editorial in the Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin (DTB).

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Long-acting insulin analogues in type 1 diabetes: No proof of additional benefit

It has so far not been proven that the long-acting insulin analogues (LAIAs) insulin detemir (trade name: Levemir) and insulin glargine (trade name: Lantus), which are approved for the treatment of type 1 diabetes, offer ...

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created May 12, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Prescription-drug heists on the rise

(AP) -- The $75 million heist at a pharmaceutical warehouse in Connecticut this week was just the most audacious example of a growing phenomenon: Thieves are stealing large quantities of prescription drugs ...

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created Mar 17, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Scientists locate disease switches

A team of scientists from the University of Copenhagen and the Max Planck Institute in Germany, has identified no less than 3,600 molecular switches in the human body. These switches, which regulate protein functions, may ...

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Long-acting insulin analogues in type 2 diabetes: advantage over human insulin not proven

It has so far not been proven that long-acting insulin analogues (LAIAs) have an advantage over conventional human insulin in the treatment of patients with type 2 diabetes. Even though the results of a 5-year study are available ...

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