Tag: Medication

Combo Tx Improves Control of Food Cravings

Patients also counseled to exercise and restrict calories

Source: Combo Tx Improves Control of Food Cravings

ADA: Basal Oral Insulin Tablet Reduces Fasting Blood Glucose and HbA1c Levels Similar to Insulin Glargine in Patients with Type 2

An oral insulin formulation has been a desirable product because the ease of administration would increase medication compliance.

Source: ADA: Basal Oral Insulin Tablet Reduces Fasting Blood Glucose and HbA1c Levels Similar to Insulin Glargine in Patients with Type 2

Metformin and Aging

Is there a positive connection between use of metformin and aging? Study shows age-related comorbidities decreased in males over 65 who take metformin.

Source: Metformin and Aging

Is This Bacteria the Reason Why Metformin Works?

Metformin Is Associated With Higher Relative Abundance of Mucin-Degrading Akkermansia muciniphila and Several Short-Chain Fatty Acid–Producing Microbiota in the Gut de la Cuesta-Zuluaga J, et al. Diabetes Care 2017 Jan; 40 (1): 54-62 What were the findings (excerpted from the Abstract)?

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Parents’ Alarming Claims About MiraLAX

For the past few years, the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia has been quietly conducting an FDA-grant funded study into parents’ reports of devastating side effects from their kids’ use of the over-the-counter constipation relief drug MiraLAX.

Source: CHOP leading FDA study into parents’ alarming claims about over-the-counter drug MiraLAX

Garcinia for Weight Loss: Modest Effect

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/875343

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Worries About Antibiotics

A new study in mice finds that antibiotics may have negative health consequences

Time Magazine offers this insightful article: Here’s a New Reason You Should Worry About Antibiotics

Endocrine Disruptors

Read more about Endocrine Disruptors with recent news, research articles and more. Stay up to date on Endocrinology research at Endocrine News.

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Routine Folate Proposed when Methotrexate is used for RA

We propose that folic acid supplements be prescribed routinely to all patients receiving MTX for the treatment of RA. We recommend a pragmatic dosing schedule of 5 mg of oral folic acid given on the morning following the day of MTX administration.

Source: Folate supplementation and methotrexate treatment in rheumatoid arthritis: a review