Screening must be supplemented by broader public health approaches. Screen and treat strategies to prevent type 2 diabetes are doomed to failure, according to a large new systematic review and meta-analysis published in The BMJ. Instead, the authors said and outside experts agreed, any effort to combat the already enormous and still growing problem of type 2…
FDA Expands Metformin Label
April 10, 2016 by Leave a Comment
— The diabetes drug can now be used in more patients with reduced kidney function The FDA on Friday greatly expanded the indication for the type 2 diabetes drug metformin. Until now use of metformin in patients with reduced kidney function had not been recommended. The new label states that metformin “can be used safely…
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