Tag: Symlin

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Insulin Pump Users Benefit from Symlin

New data from two previously completed clinical studies show that Symlin (pramlintide acetate) helped reduce A1c levels, insulin use and body weight in patients with type 1 diabetes who used insulin pumps. The data was presented by Amylin Pharmaceuticals during...
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Symlin Does Not Increase Risk of Cardiovascular Event, New Study Shows

Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced results from an analysis of an integrated database of clinical studies that showed no increased risk of cardiovascular (CV) events associated with SYMLIN(R) (pramlintide acetate) injection use compared to a pooled comparator group treated with either placebo or rapid-acting insulin...
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A Diabetic Addiction

Do you ever feel like diabetes gear is addictive? Or, rather, that it doesn’t take long to become dependent on something that, just weeks…
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A Diabetes Super Food

First off, thanks to everyone who weighed in with their own problems with delayed insulin. As I mentioned, I’ve had numerous conversations…
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Symlin Update

It’s been a while since I’ve written about Symlin, the drug that helps smooth out blood sugars after meals. (To find out more about…
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Amylin for Weight Loss

A quick post with some breaking news: next week, Amylin Pharmaceuticals is scheduled to announce results from an obesity trial it’s doing…
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Symlin and Harry Potter

There are things I tend to find out about early, like the latest top 40 hip-hop hits. And then there are things that I’m slower to pick up on,…
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Symlin Sickness

I was getting ready to write this really pro-Symlin post, explaining how it’s really done a great job of smoothing out my blood sugars and…
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Symlin: A Primer

I’m coming up on week two of my Symlin experiment, and I’ve got to say: I love it. Symlin, as you probably know, is a synthetic version…
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