Byetta is a prescription drug that helps manage blood sugar in adults with type 2 diabetes. Learn about its mild to serious side effects and how to manage them.

Combining Byetta with birth control pills can make the birth control pills less effective. Specifically, the way Byetta works can cause your body to absorb less of the birth control pill after you ...

The launch of exenatide once weekly is crucial to Amylin but the company has not yet made a decision on whether it will extend the "Byetta" brand name to the new drug.

Clinical data presented at the conference for their once-promising type-2 diabetes drug Byetta injection, ... one pill a day without regard to meals versus twice-daily subcutaneous injections ...

Federal regulators are working on a stronger label for a widely used diabetes drug marketed by Amylin Pharmaceuticals Inc. and Eli Lilly & Co. after deaths were reported with the medication ...

Amylin Pharmaceuticals put most of its eggs in Byetta's basket, only to drop the basket on investors. The drugmakers, Amylin and its partner Eli Lilly, reported four new deaths in patients taking ...

June 12 -- THURSDAY, June 11 (HealthDay News) -- Exenatide (Byetta), a drug normally used to treat diabetes, may also help non-diabetic obese people lose weight when combined with diet and ...

Aug. 28 -- TUESDAY, Aug. 26 (HealthDay News) -- The makers of the type 2 diabetes drug Byetta reported Tuesday the deaths of four more people who'd been taking the medication. The announcement by ...

For patients, the real difference is that Byetta is a twice-daily shot and Januvia a once-daily pill. Advantage Merck.

Januvia, Amylin and Eli Lilly claim, is a less potent diabetes medication than Byetta and does not work as well at reducing blood-sugar levels during the two hours following a meal.