People who use insulin or sulfonylurea medications to manage blood sugar should consider having a glucagon emergency kit on hand at all times. It’s a nasal spray or injection that treats severe ...

but the vast majority of people at risk of low blood glucose don’t carry an emergency kit. Supported by Xeris, the ADA wants to rectify low rates of glucagon prescriptions. The multi-year pact ...

Both products are priced at a similar level to the glucagon injection kits available on the market, with a list price of $280 per dose, and in the US Xeris has partnered with Amazon’s PillPack ...

Liraglutide, a GLP-1 receptor agonist, has been shown to effectively lower glucagon levels and promote weight loss. Empagliflozin is a sodium-glucose co-transporter 2 (SGLT2) inhibitor with ...

Glucagon prescriptions for severe hypoglycemia in Medicaid initially decreased from 2012 to 2018 but increased between 2019 and 2023 following the introduction of newer products. Glucagon ...

New obesity management medications, including glucagon-like peptide 1 receptor agonists (GLP-1RAs), have shown high efficacy in clinical trials. Among GLP-1RAs, liraglutide and semaglutide have ...

Veiga-Fernandes and colleagues reported on their findings in Science, in a paper titled “Neuronal-ILC2 interactions regulate pancreatic glucagon ... they also act like emergency responders ...