Actos and Bimatoprost

• Generic Name: pioglitazone
• Dosage Forms: tablet
• Other Brand Names: Actos

Actos (pioglitazone) is an oral diabetes medicine that helps control blood sugar levels.

Actos is used together with diet and exercise to improve blood sugar control in adults with type 2 diabetes mellitus.

Actos is not for treating type 1 diabetes.

• Generic Name: bimatoprost ophthalmic
• Dosage Forms: n.a.
• Other Brand Names: Lumigan

Reduction of elevated intraocular pressure (IOP) in patients with open-angle glaucoma or ocular hypertension who are intolerant of other IOP-lowering drugs or who have not responded adequately (i.e., failed to achieve target IOP as determined after multiple measurements over time) to another IOP-lowering drug.

Safety and efficacy not established for the treatment of angle-closure, inflammatory, or neovascular glaucoma.

At least as effective as latanoprost 0.005% in controlling diurnal IOP; may be more effective than timolol 0.5% in reducing IOP in patients with open-angle glaucoma or ocular hypertension.