Open wide!
Where do they get these names?!
The trade name in the U.S. is Farxiga. (How do you pronounce that?) In Europe and Australia they call it Forxiga. Go figure.
MedPageToday has the details. Here’s the FDA press release, which misspells dapagliflozin. Here’s the Australian package insert for full prescribing information. Here’s my summary of both drugs in the class at one of my other blogs.
We how have 12 classes of drugs for treating diabetes.
If you’re eating the typical high-carb diabetic diet—200 or 300 grams of carbohydrate daily—you quite likely can reduce your drug requirement by cutting back on the carbs.
Steve Parker, M.D.
Paleo Diabetic 