Celebrities: drugs
New tablet for type-2 diabetes
Regular use of the drug showed improvement in the cell function that controls blood sugar levels A new drug for type-2 diabetes was launched in the city on Friday. The drug was introduced in metros like Mumbai and Delhi earlier this month. Launched by Boehringer Ingelheim India (BI) and Eli Lilly and Company, the 5mg [...]
Continue Reading
India’s diabetes drugs market grow 22% at USD 700m in FY12
0 Tweet Share on Tumblr In an indicator of the growing prevalence of diabetes in India, the domestic diabetes drugs market for FY12 grew 22% at USD 700 million, according to a Credit Suisse report. Estimates suggest that India is set to become the ‘diabetes capital of the world’ with the number of people [...]
Continue Reading
Experimental diabetes drugs offer patients hope
By LINDA A. JOHNSON TRENTON, N.J. Some experimental diabetes treatments in late testing offer patients hope of better controlling their blood sugar and weight and preventing dangerously low blood sugar, all big challenges for millions of diabetics. Results from studies of several new diabetes medicines and insulin products, just announced at the premiere U.S. conference [...]
Continue Reading
Experimental diabetes drugs offer patients hope
By LINDA A. JOHNSON TRENTON, N.J. Some experimental diabetes treatments in late testing offer patients hope of better controlling their blood sugar and weight and preventing dangerously low blood sugar, all big challenges for millions of diabetics. Results from studies of several new diabetes medicines and insulin products, just announced at the premiere U.S. conference [...]
Continue Reading
Gonorrhea bug growing resistant to drugs: WHO
Zeenews Bureau New Delhi: The World Health Organization has said that Gonorrhea, a sexually transmitted disease that infects millions of people each year, is growing resistant to drugs and could soon become untreatable. “This organism has basically been developing resistance against every medication we`ve thrown at it,” said Dr. Manjula Lusti-Narasimhan, a scientist in U.N. [...]
Continue Reading
Commonly used anti-diabetic drug can cause bladder cancer
Of 115,727 patients in the UK, who had been treated with diabetes medication between 1988 and 2009, 470 of them had bladder cancer. This would mean that everyone in 250 patient taking the drug for more than two years were at increased risk for getting bladder cancer. Some diabetologists argue that the risks outweigh benefits [...]
Continue Reading
Deadly insect-borne disease called ‘New AIDS of the Americas’
A little-known disease caused by parasites transmitted to humans by blood-sucking insects has been labelled by experts as the “new AIDS of the Americas”. In a report, published in journal PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, the authors claimed that the illness, called Chagas Disease, has similarities to the early spread of HIV. Like HIV, it is [...]
Continue Reading
Roche Alzheimer’s drug picked for major test
By Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO | Wed May 16, 2020 3:16am IST CHICAGO (Reuters) - Roche Holding AG’s Genentech unit has won the right to try its experimental Alzheimer’s drug crenezumab on people with no signs of dementia - the first such trial to gauge whether early intervention can help prevent or slow the disease. The [...]
Continue Reading
Indians popping more antibiotics than ever: Study
NEW DELHI: There has been a six-fold increase in the number of antibiotics being popped by Indians. This includes the retail sale of Carbapenems — powerful class IV antibiotics, typically used as a “last resort” to treat serious infections caused by multi-drug resistant, gram-negative pathogens. Research by the Centre for Disease Dynamics, Economics and Policy, [...]
Continue Reading
Diabetes drug may boost power of anti-depressants
London: Pioglitazone, an anti-diabetic drug which goes by the brand name Actos, boosts the power of anti-depressants in patients whether they are suffering from diabetes or not, according to a new study. Shahin Akhondzadeh, professor at the Tehran University of Medical Sciences in Iran, and colleagues treated 40 patients with moderate to severe depression with [...]
