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09/05/2018 / By Isabelle Z.

FDA warning: Popular diabetes drug causes flesh-eating bacteria to eat your genitals

Some medication side effects are easier to ignore than others. You might be willing to overlook the occasional headache, for example, but a bacterial infection that eats away at the flesh of your genitals? That’s a dealbreaker for most people. It sounds like the kind of obscure side effects you might expect from a specialist […]

08/01/2018 / By Isabelle Z.

Doctors admit that scientific evidence questioning the safety of glucose-lowering drugs is being “largely ignored”

As type 2 diabetes continues its meteoric rise around the world, researchers are working overtime in search of better treatments – and sometimes their findings are ignored by profit-minded pharmaceutical companies. Some people believe that the most important thing that diabetics can do is to lower their glucose at all costs. This stance certainly benefits […]

03/31/2018 / By Ethan Huff

Diabetes medication plunges blood sugar to dangerously low levels, increasing risk of heart attack and death

The American College of Physicians (ACP) has released an updated guidance statement about how to treat type-2 diabetes that significantly scales back the group’s official recommendations concerning drug-based interventions for the blood sugar condition. Because pharmacologic therapies for type-2 diabetes come with some serious health risks, the ACP is now recommending that physicians take a […]

03/26/2018 / By Zoey Sky

Use of most-prescribed diabetes drug, metformin, during pregnancy found to increase risk of obesity in the child

According to the results of a study, women who take metformin, a common diabetes medication, could be putting their children at increased risk of being obese or overweight. More pregnant women with gestational diabetes or polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) are taking metformin to treat their conditions. PCOS usually causes infertility, and the condition can put women at […]

01/05/2018 / By Zoey Sky

TOO TOXIC to swallow: Up to a third of diabetics don’t take their pills because of the debilitating side effects

According to a group of researchers, at least a third of diabetics do not take their medication due to fear of possible side effects. Diabetics in the U.K. are often prescribed metformin, the most commonly prescribed drug for type 2 diabetes. While there is no definite data on how many of the 3.4 million people in […]

12/10/2017 / By Michelle Simmons

Diabetes drug manufacturers unable to prove any real benefit to patients

Manufacturers of diabetes drugs could not prove any real additional benefit of sitagliptin to individuals with diabetes, according to a report by the Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care (IQWiG). The IQWiG reevaluated the effects of the diabetes drug known as sitagliptin compared to the appropriate comparator therapies for diabetic people. Sitagliptin, which […]

09/27/2017 / By Tracey Watson

BREAKING: France to criminally prosecute drug company for false marketing of diabetes drug that killed 2,000 people

How would you feel if a beloved family member died because of the greed of a pharmaceutical company that knowingly continued marketing a deadly drug for 30 years after they found out it could kill people? That is the position of the families of nearly 2,300 French patients who died after using the drug benfluorex […]

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