New Diabetes Drug Shows Promise in Trial
... liraglutide mimics effects of a natural hormone, researchers s...hDay News) -- An experimental diabetes drug called liraglutide appears to outperform exenatide (Byetta), the only...ed by liraglutide's maker, Novo Nordisk, shows. liraglutide is a laboratory-made version of glucagon-like pept...Pipeline for New Obesity Therapies is Focus of New Report
...ylin/Alkermes), exenatide + recombinant leptin (r-metHuLeptin; Amylin/Amgen), Symlin (pramlintide; Amylin), pramlintide + AC162352 (PYY 3-36; Amylin), liraglutide (NN2211; Novo Nordisk), albiglutide (GSK / Human Genome Science), PC-DAC:Exendin-4 (ConjuChem), Boc5 (SH-7871; UC Riverside / Chinese Academy of Scien...Endocrinology Panel Examines Interplay Between Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease in New Report
... (Amylin), pramlintide + leptin (Amylin/Amgen), Galvus (vildagliptin; Novartis), alogliptin (Takeda), saxagliptin (BMS/AZ), Redona (denagliptin; GSK), liraglutide (Novo Nordisk), Boc5 (UC Riverside / Chinese Acad. Sci.), substituted quinoxalines (Pfizer/Novo Nordisk), Actos (pioglitazone; Takeda/Lilly), Avandia ...The Lancet Publishes Direct Comparison Study Between Liraglutide and Exenatide
NEW ORLEANS, June 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, The Lancet published online the results of the Novo Nordisk (NVO) LEAD(TM) 6 study, a direct comparison between two products in a new class of diabetes treatments, the GLP-1 receptor agonists. Results show that patients treated with liraglutide had a...Update on FDA Advisory Committee Meeting on Liraglutide for the Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes
SILVER SPRING, Md., April 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Novo Nordisk today announced that the Endocrinologic and Metabolic Drugs Advisory Committee of the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has finalized its discussions of questions related to liraglutide, a once-daily human GLP-1 anal...Data from One-Year Liraglutide Phase 3 Study Published Online in The Lancet
PRINCETON, N.J., Sept. 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Data from a 52-week phase 3 study (LEADTM 3) of Novo Nordisk's (NYSE: NVO ) liraglutide, a once-daily human GLP-1 analog, were published online today in The Lancet. The study showed that liraglutide, when taken alone, produces statistically significan...Liraglutide provides significantly better glucose control than insulin glargine in phase 3 study
...esults from the first of five phase 3 studies with liraglutide - the once-daily human GLP-1 analogue. The 26-week...end of the study, more than 50% of patients in the liraglutide group had reached the American Diabetes Associatio...e study, the difference in body weight between the liraglutide and insulin glargine treatment groups was on avera...Novo Nordisk Appoints Alan C. Moses as Chief Medical Officer Worldwide
...ice president and chief science officer for Novo Nordisk A/S. "The broadening of Novo Nordisk's diabetes therapeutic portfolio with the development of liraglutide and other novel molecules in the pipeline, and the increasing importance of the U. S. to the Novo Nordisk business, requires a leader with clinical an...