New Diabetes Drug

dapagliflozin - The new diabetes drug

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Bristol Myers Squibb Co. has just released a new drug, dapagliflozin. The Food and Drug Administration has just accepted it along with the European Medicines Agency. Originally the drug was created in 2007 but it has taken a while for it to be accepted. This drug help type 2 diabetes only. Type 2 diabetes is a progressive disease determined by the body's insulin resistance or the dysfunction of beta cells in the pancreas. This leads the higher sugar levels in the body. This disease is very serious and over 285 million people have it world wide. This new drug, instead of putting in insulin in the body, puts "sodium-glucose cotransporter," in other words helping to break down glucose. I like this new look on diabetes. I believe that this could actually work because no one has tried it before. Even if it does not work it is reassuring to know scientists are thinking about new ways to stop things.

"FDA Accepts NDA For Type 2 Diabetes Drug Compound Dapagliflozin ." RTT News.
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