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Metformin Defined

A drug used as a treatment for Type 2 diabetes; belongs to a class of drugs called biguanides.See also: Oral hypoglycemic agents.

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Activx Biosciences, Inc. Announces Positive Phase Ib and IIa Clinical Trial Results for KRP-104, a Flexible Dosing ...

Published August 21, 2008, 3:00 am, Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance

Activx Biosciences, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Tokyo-based Kyorin Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., announced today topline results from their Phase Ib and Phase IIa clinical trials with KRP-104, a dipeptidyl peptidase-4 inhibitor, for the treatment of type 2 diabetes.

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Warning issued on dangers of diabetes drug Avandia

Published August 20, 2008, 5:42 pm, News-Medical-Net

Thousands of Australians who are taking the diabetes drug Avandia (rosiglitazone) have been urged by the drug's manufacturer to see their doctors following safety issues concerning the medication.

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  • Diabetes Diary 2: Do Not Take The Pink Pill at Somerset' Bob's Place: We tend to trust our doctors. We take the medicines they prescribe us without giving too much thought as to how they do what they do ? or their possible side-effects. In the second of his Diabetes Diary entries, Bob Kingsley takes a closer look at the medications he?s been prescribed, and finds that one of them ? rosiglitazone ? has recently been shown to have a very worrying downside.

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