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  • noun medicine A particular anti-diabetic drug

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  • Also known as saxagliptin, the drug is tended to be taken once a day in tablet form and used with diet and exercise to control high blood sugar levels, the FDA said in a release Friday.

    Latest News - UPI.com 2009

  • New Diabetes Drug Gets FDA Panel's Backing diabetes drug called saxagliptin has won the endorsement of a U.S.

    Medlogs - Recent stories 2009

  • For one of the recently-developed oral hyperglycemic drugs saxagliptin we are running a very large study, 16,500 people at 800 centers, with a leading cardiology group in Boston.

    Riva Greenberg: Changing Whole Towns to Reduce Type 2 Diabetes: Itamar Raz Riva Greenberg 2012

  • Applications for saxagliptin, as well as Novo Nordisk A/S's liraglutide, were submitted before the new guidelines were issued.

    Panel OKs Diabetes Drug 2009

  • Bristol-Myers and AstraZeneca began conducting human testing of their drug, saxagliptin, well before the new FDA guidelines and didn't design studies to meet the new standards.

    New Drug for Diabetes Shows Few Heart Risks 2009

  • Another possibility for Bristol-Myers could be a deal with Britain's AstraZeneca because the companies are co-developing a drug for diabetes called saxagliptin.

    Drug-Industry Shakeout Hits Small Firms Hard 2009

  • The next product that could be approved, potentially by the end of the month, is saxagliptin, a diabetes drug being developed with AstraZeneca PLC that has prospects of becoming a major seller.

    Bristol-Myers Seeks to Stay Independent 2009

  • Specifically, the panel voted 10 to 2 on a question that asked if there was enough evidence to show saxagliptin didn't carry excess cardiovascular risk.

    Panel OKs Diabetes Drug 2009

  • The FDA review of saxagliptin focused primarily on six core studies submitted by Bristol-Myers and AstraZeneca that followed patients for at least one year after the initial three-to-six month study period.

    New Drug for Diabetes Shows Few Heart Risks 2009

  • In higher-risk patients, the rates appeared to be similar between patients taking saxagliptin and those getting a placebo or, in one study, the popular diabetes drug metformin, at about 2%.

    New Drug for Diabetes Shows Few Heart Risks 2009

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