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The Aberdeen Area Senior Center, 1303 Seventh Ave. S.E., is holding a blood pressure and blood sugar clinic on Tuesday from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. This clinic is sponsored by Manor Care Health Services, which will have staff members present….
Novo Nordisk’s liraglutide phase-3 trial indicates blood sugar control for type-2 diabtetes (PharmaBiz)
Novo Nordisk’s Liraglutide, a once-daily human GLP-1 analogue, that underwent phase-III study, has proved sustained improvements in blood sugar control in patients with early type-2 diabetes.
Blood Sugar Control With Early Type 2 Diabetes Patients - Data From One-year Liraglutide Phase 3 Study Published In … (Medical News Today)
Data from a 52-week phase 3 study (LEAD 3) of liraglutide, a once-daily human GLP-1 analogue, were published today by The Lancet. The study showed that liraglutide, when taken alone, produces statistically significant and sustained improvements in blood sugar control in patients with early type 2 diabetes, as compared with glimepiride, a widely used oral antidiabetic drug.
CHIP begins Sept. 26 (Lebanon Express)
The Coronary Health Improvement Program, or CHIP, will begin at Lebanon Samaritan Community Hospital on Sept. 26. The class is aimed at teaching healthy lifestyle choices that can help lower blood pressure, blood sugar, and increase overall health.
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Many people know that diabetes leads to the development of extremely high blood sugar levels in a person’s body. However, the damage caused by diabetes goes far beyond the blood vessels and can actually affect some of your most vital organs. In this article I discuss four of the key organs that can be seriously damaged by diabetes.
How to Maintain Normal Blood Sugar Levels - Real Life Experience
By years rolling on, it is getting mechanized in all walks of life. In one angle, the enhancement of technical support makes human life lazier as well as easier. In another angle, sophisticated life style is the worst machinery resulting in several bodily diseases. Among them, Blood pressure and blood sugar are significantly serious ones.
Menu For Diabetics - What Are the Foods That Lower Blood Sugar Levels?
People suffering from diabetes need to take care to have a “menu for diabetics” and eat accordingly in order to keep their blood sugar levels under control. Though they are not left with much variety, as far as food is concerned but the vegetables prescribed for them are not all that awful.
Diabetes - Insulin Therapy - Part 1
In 1921, Dr. Fred Banting discovered insulin and developed the very first medicine to treat diabetes. After that discovery, insulin was injected once, twice or several times a day to control blood sugar. For those people with diabetes who need insulin to survive there are choices: insulin injections or the insulin pump.
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Eli Lilly and Company has announced changes to the labeling of Zyprexa and Symbyax, two brand-name atypical antipsychotics produced and sold by the company. Eli Lilly has updated the labeling to include more warning information on potentially harmful weight gain and blood sugar elevation that may result from taking the medications.
According to Eli Lilly, the label changes came about because of conversations with the FDA, as well as new analyses of the data from large clinical trials conducted by the company and others. The company will be sending a “Dear Healthcare Practitioner” letter to doctors about the new labeling, as well as informing consumer advocacy and professional associations.
Zyprexa is the brand name for olanzapine, while Symbyax is a mix of olanzapine and fluoxetine. Zyprexa is approved for use in treatment of schizophrenia and the mixed and manic portions of bipolar disorder, while Symbyax is approved for the treatment of bipolar depression.
Neither product is approved for patients with dementia, and they may increase the risk of death if used on elderly dementia patients. Nevertheless, in the past the company has marketed Zyprexa for treatment of dementia and for manic bipolar episodes.
One of the labeling changes focuses on unnatural weight gain from olanzapine. According to the company, the drug has been shown to lead to “significant and sometimes very high elevations in triglyceride levels.”
The other major change is a stronger emphasis on the drug’s effect on blood glucose levels. According to the company, atypical antipsychotics in general may lead to an increase in blood sugar levels, while olanzapine has an even greater effect than other such drugs. In some cases, patients treated with such medications have suffered complications including ketoacidosis, coma and even death.
In January, Eli Lilly settled 18,000 lawsuits from patients who alleged that using Zyprexa caused them to develop diabetes or other diseases. The company agreed to pay $500 million, bringing its total Zyprexa-related settlement costs to $1.2 billion.