Amylin Pharmaceuticals Inc., Eli Lilly and Company and Alkermes, Inc. today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a complete response letter regarding the New Drug Application (NDA) for BYDUREON(TM). In the complete response letter there are no requests for new pre-clinical or clinical trials. Requests...

MannKind Corporation announced that it has received a Complete Response letter from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) regarding the New Drug Application (NDA) for AFREZZA(TM)   Inhalation Powder for the treatment of adult patients with type 1 and type 2 diabetes. The Complete Response letter...

Women who gain weight too quickly during the first three months of pregnancy are more prone to develop gestational diabetes, suggests a new study by researchers from Kaiser Permanente Medical Group in Oakland, California. Reuters reports the researchers compared 345 women who developed gestational diabetes to 800 women who did...

Diamyd Medical announced that 100 patients are now enrolled in the company’s US Phase III study called DiaPrevent at 33 diabetes centers throughout the USA and more sites are to be added. The study will include 320 children and adolescents between 10 and 20 years of age, recently diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. To date more...

The earlier patients diagnosed with type 2 diabetes started taking metformin, the longer the drug remained effective, says a new study, published in Diabetes Care. The study reported by EurekAlert used electronic health records to follow nearly 1,800 people with diabetes in Kaiser Permanente’s health plan in Washington and...

According to a press release by the AHA, a new study published in Hypertension: Journal of the American Heart Association has shown that a long-acting ACE inhibitor used to reduce blood pressure significantly decreased the risk for cardiovascular disease, including stroke, in normal weight, overweight and obese patients.  Obese...

A new study, reported by the American Heart Association, estimates that the increased consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages between 1990 and 2000 contributed to 130,000 new cases of diabetes. Sugar-sweetened soda, sport and fruit drinks (not 100 percent fruit juice) contain equivalent calories, ranging from 120 to 200 per drink,...

Georgetown University’s leading scorer Austin Freeman has been diagnosed with diabetes. According to a report in The Washington Post, Freeman disclosed the diagnosis in an interview Wednesday evening, joined by his physician, Stephen Clement, head of the Diabetes Center at Georgetown University Hospital. The condition shouldn’t...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has notified 17 food manufacturers that the labeling for 22 of their food products violates the Federal regulations. The action follows an October 2009 statement by Commissioner of Food and Drugs, Margaret Hamburg, M.D., encouraging companies to review their labeling to ensure that they...

A new study, reported by Reuters, has found that children in the U.S. snack so often that they are moving toward constant eating. The study conducted by Carmen Piernas and Barry Popkin of the University of North Carolina found that 27 percent of calories that American kids consume come from snacks, and that the average child eats...