SAN FRANCISCO – Type 2 diabetes often becomes progressively more difficult to manage, moving from prediabetes that can be addressed via weight loss and exercise eventually through requiring multiple daily insulin injections. A novel procedure could offer the opportunity to turn back the clock for type 2 (T2) diabetes patients who are insulin-dependent. Fractyl Laboratories Inc. has developed an outpatient procedure known as duodenal mucosal resurfacing (DMR) that, when used in combination with a GLP-1 receptor agonist drug, can reverse the need for insulin for type 2 diabetes patients who were previously insulin-dependent. That's according to data from a small study presented here on June 9 at the American Diabetes Association's 79th Scientific Sessions.

The FDA has given its final nod to W.L. Gore & Associates Inc. to market the Cardioform ASD occluder, aimed at correcting a congenital anomaly that causes a hole in the wall between the two upper chambers of the heart. The device, approved May 28, marks the newest addition to the Flagstaff, Ariz.-based health care and consumer products company's Cardioform occluder product line. The Cardioform ASD occluder is indicated for the percutaneous closure of ostium secundum atrial septal defects (ASDs).