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Study Finds Metformin Safer than other Diabetes Drugs

May 12, 2011

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MedPage Today published an article about a Danish Cohort study finding that Metformin is safer than many of the most commonly used drugs to treat Type 2 diabetes. The study found that the medications Glimepiride, Glibenclamide, Glipizide, and Tolbutamide were associated with an increased risk of death compared with Metformin. The research was conducted by […]

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Will Experimental Weight Loss Drug Gain FDA Approval?

April 24, 2011

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ScienceDaily recently published an article about an investigational combination of drugs already approved to treat obesity, migraine and epilepsy that produced up to a 10 percent weight loss in obese individuals participating in a one-year clinical trial. The participants of this Duke University Medical Center study took a controlled-release combination therapy consisting of phentermine and […]

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