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Actos

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Pioglitazone is used, alone or in combination with other medications, to treat type 2 diabetes in people whose diabetes cannot be controlled by diet and exercise alone. Pioglitazone is in a class of drugs called thiazolidinediones. It works by increasing your body's sensitivity to insulin, a substance your body produces to help control blood sugar levels.

Actos drug is approved medication brand by the FDA

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Amaryl

Amobarbital, a barbiturate, is used in the short-term treatment of insomnia to help you fall asleep and stay asleep through the night. It also is used as a sedative to relieve anxiety, including anxiety before surgery.

Amaryl drug is approved medication brand by the FDA

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Avandia

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Used along with diet and exercise to treat people with type 2 diabetes mellitus, alone or in combination with other drugs.

Avandia drug is approved medication brand by the FDA

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Betaglim

Used with diet and exercise to treat Type 2 (noninsulin-dependent) diabetes (formerly adult-onset). Glimepiride may be used with or without insulin.

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Daonil

Used to treat Type 2 (noninsulin-dependent) diabetes (formerly adult-onset), particularly in people whose diabetes cannot be controlled by diet alone. Glyburide is not used to treat Type 1 (insulin-dependent) diabetes (formerly juvenile-onset).

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Diabose

Used (with diet only or diet and other medications) to treat type II (noninsulin- dependent) diabetes (high blood sugar).

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Diaglip

Used to treat Type 2 (noninsulin-dependent) diabetes (formerly adult-onset), particularly in people whose diabetes cannot be controlled by diet alone.

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Generic glucophage

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Glucophage (brand name: Glucophage) Generic form: Metformin

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Glez

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Gliben

Used for treating non-insulin dependent type II diabetes, when diet alone is not adequate.

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Glipizide

This is an anti-diabetic medicine (sulfonylurea-type) used along with a proper diet and exercise program to control high blood sugar. It is used in patients with type 2 diabetes (non-insulin-dependent diabetes). It works by stimulating the release of your body's natural insulin. Effectively controlling blood sugar helps prevent heart disease, strokes, kidney disease, blindness, and circulation problems, as well as sexual function problems (impotence).

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Glucobay

Used for the treatment of diabetes

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Glucophage

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Glucophage (brand name: Glucophage) Generic form: Metformin

Glucophage drug is approved medication brand by the FDA

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Glucophage xr

This medicine is a biguanide-type medication that is used along with a diet and exercise program to control high blood sugar in diabetic patients. This medicine works by helping restore your body's proper response to the insulin you naturally produce, and by decreasing the amount of sugar that your liver makes and that your stomach/intestines absorb. Controlling high blood sugar helps prevent heart disease, strokes, kidney disease, blindness, and circulation problems, as well as sexual function problems (impotence).

Glucophage xr drug is approved medication brand by the FDA

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Glumet

Used to treat type 2 (noninsulin-dependent) diabetes (formerly adult-onset).

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Metformin

Metformin drug is approved medication brand by the FDA

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Novonorm

Used to treat type II (noninsulin-dependent) diabetes (formerly adult-onset). Repaglinide helps your body regulate the amount of glucose (sugar) in your blood. It decreases the amount of glucose by stimulating the pancreas to release insulin.

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Oglo

Used, along with proper diet and exercise, to treat Type 2 Diabetes (high blood sugar).

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Okamet

Used to treat type 2 (noninsulin-dependent) diabetes (formerly adult-onset).

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Pioglu

Used, along with proper diet and exercise, to treat Type 2 Diabetes (high blood sugar). This medication may be used alone or in combination with other diabetic medications such as glyburide, glipizide, metformin, or insulin. Pioglitazone lowers blood sugar by helping the body use insulin more efficiently, along with decreasing the amount of glucose (sugar) released by the liver.

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Piozone

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Diabetes related

diabetes mellitus, gestational diabetes, glucose tolerance test, high blood glucose, hyperglycemia (Also called high blood glucose.), impaired glucose tolerance (IGT), insulin-dependent diabetes (Also called type 1 diabetes.), low blood glucose, self-monitoring blood glucose, type 1 diabetes, type 2 diabetes, urge incontinence, xerostomia,

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