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Teva To Market a Generic Version of ACTOS in 2012

Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited has granted Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. a license to market a generic version of ACTOS® in the U.S. beginning on August 17, 2012, and a generic version of ACTOplus met® beginning December 14, 2012. The license was granted following an agreement to settle patent litigation related to Teva's generic versions of Takeda's ACTOS® (pioglitazone HCl) and ACTOplus met® (pioglitazone HCl and metformin HCl) in the United States...
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Novo Nordisk to Develop Oral Insulin

Novo Nordisk has announced the signing of an exclusive Development and Licence Agreement with Emisphere Technologies, Inc. to develop and commercialize oral formulations ofNovo Nordisk’s insulins. This is the second license agreement between the two companies. The first agreement for the development of oral formulations of GLP-1 receptor agonists was signed...
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Amylin Submits Initial Sections of Rolling Biologics License Application for Metreleptin

Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced that it has submitted the initial sections of a rolling submission for a Biologics License Application (BLA) to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the use of metreleptin to treat diabetes and/or hypertriglyceridemia (high levels of triglycerides in the bloodstream) in patients with rare forms of lipodystrophy. Consistent with the severity and rare nature of the disorder...
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Medtronic Launches New Diabetes Software Following FDA Approval

Medtronic announced the market launch of CareLink®Pro 3.0 Therapy Management Software, the first software program to offer advanced decision support to healthcare professionals managing diabetes. This announcement was made following the Food and Drug Administration approval of the software for diabetes management support...
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New Treatment May Help Type 2 Diabetes Patients Suffering from Chronic Kidney Disease

Data from a Phase 2b study suggests that bardoxolone methyl, an investigational treatment for chronic kidney disease (CKD), may reduce the stage of CKD and improve estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) and other measures of kidney function in the majority of patients receiving the drug. Reata Pharmaceuticals and Abbott presented the new findings at the American Society of Nephrology (ASN) Renal Week Conference in Denver, Colorado....
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Byetta as Safe as Other Diabetes Drugs New Study Finds

Results of a new retrospective study of nearly 375,000 type 2 diabetes patients evaluating the incidence of events related to cardiovascular disease (CVD) and all-cause hospitalizations among initiators of BYETTA(R) (exenatide) injection compared to initiators of other commonly used diabetes medications were presented by Eli Lilly and Amylin Pharmaceuticals at the American Heart Association Scientific Sessions in Chicago...
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Amylin Pharmaceuticals and JDRF to Collaborate on Study of Metreleptin as Diabetes Therapy

The Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) and Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Inc. have agreed to to provide financial support for a clinical proof-of-concept study to investigate the effects of metreleptin, an analog of the human hormone leptin, in patients with type 1 diabetes which will be conducted at The University of Texas (UT) Southwestern Medical Center...
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