Insulin and oral diabetes drugs were in the news recently, as a recent article in the New England Journal of Medicine caught the media's attention: Emergency Hospitalizations for Adverse Drug Events in Older Americans was in November 24, 2011 issue.
The authors identified four medications (or medication classes) which were implicated for 2/3 of hospitalizations for drug-related side effects in the elderly. Insulins (13.9% of the hospitalizations) and oral hypoglycemic agents (10.7%)...
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CausesType 2 diabetes is caused by insulin resistance, in which the body does not properly use insulin. Type 2 diabetes is thought to result from a... Read more »
Research presented at a recent meeting of the American College of Clinical Pharmacology shows that the inhaled insulin drug Exubera is generally as... Read more »
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