Reprinted with permission from Amy Tenderich of www.diabetesmine.com.
You may have also read that last week the FDA approved another new "combination drug" called Avandamet (from GlaxoSmithKline) as a "first-line treatment" for Type 2 diabetes. And you may have wondered, like I always do at these Big Pharma Announcements, what the heck this means.
What's up with these combo pills for diabetes, anyway? Why stick Avandia and metformin into a single pill -- other than the obvious convenience of...
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