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Metformin, a drug used to treat Type II Diabetes and Pre-Diabetes, may soon be available in chewing-gum form. 
 
A collaboration between Canadian and Danish companies is developing the product, aimed for people who have difficulty tolerating the pill form of the medication due to gastrointestinal side effects. 
 
The drug would be absorbed through the mouth lining instead of the stomach.  
 
Metformin increases the sensitivity of body tissue to insulin.

Fresh diabetes treatment on the way

In-PharmaTechnologist.com - 6/21/2006 8:10 AM

21/06/2006 - A chewing gum to treat Type 2 diabetes and obesity is one step closer to reality after developers of the technology, Generex, formed a new partnership with Danish medicinal chewing gum specialists, Fertin Pharma, to develop the product.
 
Small Canadian drug delivery firm Generex recently stole a march on the pharma giants by launching the world's first non-injectable insulin in Ecuador last December in the form of an oral insulin spray and the chewing gum is now being developed using si
 
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