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Amylin Pharmaceuticals says a federal court issued an injunction preventing drug development partner Eli Lilly from using the same sales force to sell an Amylin-developed diabetes treatment and a competitor's. Amylin says the temporary restraining order prevents Lilly from continuing with a plan to sell both Byetta and Boehringer Ingelheim's linagliptin. Amylin and Lilly entered an ...

After her gastric-bypass surgery a year ago, Cyndi Toney of Cape Canaveral lost something more than her excess weight. Toney, age 48, also said so long to her diabetes. Initially developed to help morbidly obese patients lose massive amounts of weight, bariatric surgery has emerged as a formidable weapon against Type 2 diabetes. Now it's gaining ...

The treatment of diabetes 2 took a hit today, but one that will prevent a higher risk of heart attack in patients and thus potentially save lives in the long run. The FDA will pull GlaxoSmithKline's lucrative rosiglitazone (Avandia) off pharmacy shelves November 18, 2011. Instead, physicians wishing to prescribe the type 2 diabetes drug ...

(LONDON) -- British researchers have found a gene they say is linked to Type 2 diabetes and cholesterol levels and serves as the master switch that controls the behavior of other genes found within body fat. The discovery could lead to obesity-related treatments in the future. In a study published in the journal Nature Genetics, the ...

WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration says it has approved a new diabetes pill from Boehringer Ingelheim and Eli Lilly for patients who can't control their blood sugar with older medicines. The agency approved Tradjenta tablets for adults with type 2 diabetes, which affects 24 million people in the U.S. People with the disease have trouble breaking ...

People with Type 2 diabetes have been found to have better blood sugar control after gastric bypass surgery than with diet alone--even if the same amount of weight is lost.  A recent study published in Science Translational Medicine attempted to understand if something other than weight loss was contributing to better management of blood sugar. Based ...

For patients who are obese and have Type 2 diabetes, gastric bypass can be a remarkable cure: After such surgery, more than three-quarters of such patients can significantly reduce or discontinue their diabetes drugs within a year, studies show. With that in mind, diabetes and obesity specialists meeting this week in New York City returned again and again to a central ...

Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (NYSE: BMY) and AstraZeneca (NYSE: AZN) today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the inclusion of data from two clinical studies in an update to the ONGLYZA™ (saxagliptin) U.S. Prescribing Information for adult type 2 diabetes patients. The renal study investigated the safety and efficacy of ONGLYZA in patients ...

MONDAY, Feb. 21 (HealthDay News) -- When it comes to shedding pounds and improving or eliminating type 2 diabetes, gastric bypass surgery may be better than other surgical weight-loss procedures, two new studies find. But obese patients should be careful to choose surgeons who have performed a high volume of these procedures before committing, said Dr. ...

Bethesda, Maryland (CNN) -- When Jonathan Legg of Bethesda, Maryland, got a diagnosis of type 2 diabetes at 39, he was shocked. "I had always been pretty active," said Legg. "But it was a big wake-up call, that what I was doing and my current weight were not OK." That was two years ago. Since that time, ...