Once-Weekly ART Showed Similar Efficacy for HIV as Daily ART
DENVER — A once-weekly oral antiretroviral therapy (ART) regimen of the investigational drug islatravir, a nucleoside reverse transcriptase translocation inhibitor, with lenacapavir (Sunlenca) showed similar efficacy to daily oral ART in people with HIV, a phase II randomized study showed. The virologic suppression rate was 94.2% in both the patients who received the weekly regimen […]
Once-Weekly Insulin Icodec Bests Daily Insulin Options for Type 2 Diabetes
SAN DIEGO — Investigational once-weekly insulin icodec outperformed once-daily insulin glargine U100 when it came to glycemic control in type 2 diabetes, the phase IIIa ONWARDS 1 trial found. Over the course of 52 weeks, people with type 2 diabetes saw a greater average reduction in HbA1c with icodec compared with glargine U100 (estimated between-group […]