Researchers, Andrea Leone-Bay and associates from MannKind Corporation have illustrated novel ultra-fast acting suppertime insulin which could be taken as oral inhalation to be absorbed through the lungs. Available as AFREZZA this new-fangled type of insulin is inhalable as opposed to injection form. As the insulin absorption is so swift, AFREZZA’s outline strongly imitates the standard early insulin reaction noted among people in good health. AFREZZA is looking forward to garnering the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) nod. Researchers stated that the novel insulin inhaler employs the Technosphere expertise, a release technology which is pertinent to an extensive array of other medications which are presently administered in shot or jab form. Similar to insulin, such drugs are proteins whose digestion and obliteration would occur in the stomach in case taken via the oral route. Technosphere’s another formula is MKC-180, a creation derived from an innate hormone which curbs  [...]

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has raised a caveat to be wary of the counterfeit copies of the widely bought non-prescription weight loss drug Alli that is being sold online and could have detrimental outcome on weight-watchers. The discovery of these fake copies is being marketed on online auctioning websites like eBay. They are being solely vended in sixty milligrams, 120-count refill sachets and bear considerable similarity to the real Alli. GlaxoSmithKline, in-charge of making the FDA-accepted version of the drug mentioned that the bogus Alli has a constituent known as Sibutramine which must not be consumed without the doctor’s supervision and might have potentially grave counter-reactions with other types of prescription medicines. However, these fake drugs do not have orlistat – the key constituent present in GSK’s product, Alli and Xenical being manufactured by Roche. On the contrary, fake Alli has sibutramine as its components. Sibutramine is the key constituent  [...]