Study: Once-a-week diabetes drug works better than twice-daily injectionSusannah F. Locke
(HealthDay)—Type 2 diabetes can be tough to control without medication. But for some people, the thought of daily shots makes them delay or avoid starting insulin therapy. Ad Now, new research offers some hope for thoseinsulinavoiders—a once-a-week insulin injection may someday replace dail...
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- For type 2 diabetes, how about a shot that's just once a week? The FDA is considering a medicine that would be a weekly shot. And it's not insulin. It's a hormone called albiglutide -- to be marketed by Glaxo Smith Kline as Eperzan. "It lowers blood glucose...
Once‐weekly Trulicity is a type 2 diabetes medication for adults that helps your body release its own insulin and can help improve your A1C and blood sugar numbers. For adults living with T2DM, Trulicity lowers the risk of CV events like heart attack, s
Successful glycemic control with three times a week degludec injection by medical staff for an elderly hemodialysis patient with type 2 diabetes For elderly hemodialysis patients with diabetes, the treatment options are restricted, and insulin therapy plays an important role. However, sometimes it m.....
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First, the study had a 26-week duration and sustained effects were not studied. Second, there was the potential for selection bias owing to the number of injections; however, compared with regimens for daily basal insulin, the regimen in this trial only required 1 extra injection per week (...
In Phase Ia clinical study, GZR4 demonstrated favorable safety and tolerability profiles in healthy subjects, maintaining a stable glucose-lowering effect for up to one week with a single administration. In Phase Ib clinical study, patients with Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) receiving six weeks ...
comprised of a 52-week main phase followed by a three-year extension period. Two-hundred growth hormone treatment naïve, prepubertal children with growth hormone deficiency were randomly assigned in a 2:1...
Twice-daily dapagliflozin co-administered with metformin in type 2 diabetes: a 16-week randomized, placebo-controlled clinical trial Aims To evaluate the efficacy and safety of twice-daily dosing of dapagliflozin and metformin, exploring the feasibility of a fixed-dose combination. Metho... PM Schum...