Leading Diabetes Medicines in U.S. Market

The total diabetes market for the first half of 2010 amounted to $8.7 billion, enormous growth from 2005, when the full year's sales amounted to only $9.3 billion. So, we figure it would be instructive to see which drugs are most successful at riding the diabetes wave these days.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control issued diabetes prevalence numbers: 25.8 million people in the U.S. have the disease, 8.3 percent of the population--and nine percent more than officials had expected when they predicted growth two years ago. More than a third of adul