By
MikeH on
October 2, 2012
Managing type 2 diabetes can be just as hard as managing type 1. Wouldn’t it be cool if someone were encouraging patients to set a motivational D-management goal for the week, and they’d donate $5 to an influential diabetes organization or charity in the process?
Well, that’s exactly what the ‘Mine’s own parent company Alliance Health Networks is doing right now at the huge DiabeticConnect community site. Alliance has been working with Edelman PR to develop a type 2 diabetes…
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The biggest thing in diabetes headlines of late is Bydureon, the first and only once-a-week drug to help type 2 diabetics keep their sugars in check, which is newly approved by the FDA. Amylin’s stock price is up, and the pharma blogosphere is all abuzz. But if you’re like us, you may be wondering what the really big deal is. New type 2 drugs come out all the time, don’t they?
Well, for one thing,…
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The world of type 2 diabetes drugs is wacky indeed. While Amylin’s long-acting version of Byetta — called Bydureon and predicted by many experts to become a blockbuster — is still held up at FDA, the agency approved a new oral drug earlier this month that is reportedly unremarkable except in the lawsuit it has spurred.
The drug is called linagliptin, brand name Tradjenta, a new oral DPP-4 inhibitor from Eli Lilly and Boehringer that…
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