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New PBS drug offers hope to diabetes patients

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A drug newly listed on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) promises to improve the life expectancy of patients with type-2 diabetes. Image: A nurse administers a diabetes test. (AAP)


Clinical trials have shown encouraging results - reduced blood glucose levels and cardiovascular death in diabetic patients.

 

 

 


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