The biggest mystery about Byetta is why some people are so successful at losing a lot of weight on it and others are not. I know people who have lost more than 60 pounds in less than a year on Byetta. Yet I hear of others who have lost very little weight, if any. [Read more →]

Byetta the new medicine for people with type 2 diabetes works for me even better than I had ever imagined. As I write, I just came back home in Boulder, Colorado, from a follow-up visit to my doctor, Jeffrey N. Gerber, whose office is in Littleton, south of Denver. [Read more →]

Taking Byetta is a lot easier than getting it. At least for me.

Byetta (pronounced bye-A-tuh) has been an interest of mine for years. I learned about it eight years ago this month in an interview with Richard Krawiec, who was then Amylin’s spokesman. Then four years ago I wrote what I think was the first article about Byetta for my column on American Diabetes Association’s website. [Read more →]