Looking beyond Avandia for diabetes treatment
Saturday, August 14, 2010 - 11:42
in Health & Medicine
With use of that blockbuster drug in decline over side-effect concerns, patients and doctors can look to older, longer-studied treatments. The safety of most diabetes drugs are time-tested — insulin was discovered in the early 1920s, and two of the other most commonly prescribed, metformin and sulfonylurea, have been around since the 1950s.