Glyburide and Metformin Tablets and Lomitapide

• Generic Name: glyburide / metformin
• Dosage Forms: tablet, film coated
• Other Brand Names: Glucovance

Glyburide and metformin is a combination of two oral diabetes medicines that help control blood sugar levels.

Glyburide and metformin is used together with diet and exercise to improve blood sugar control in adults with type 2 diabetes. glyburide and metformin is not for treating type 1 diabetes.

Glyburide and metformin may also be used for purposes not listed in this medication guide.

• Generic Name: lomitapide
• Dosage Forms: n.a.
• Other Brand Names: Juxtapid

Lomitapide is a cholesterol-lowering medication. It reduces blood levels of "bad" cholesterol, such as low-density lipoprotein (LDL) or non-high-density liproprotein (non-HDL), as well as a protein that carries bad cholesterol in the blood.

Lomitapide is used together with a low-fat diet and other treatments to lower total cholesterol in people with homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia (an inherited type of high cholesterol).

It is not known whether lomitapide will lower your risk of heart disease.

Lomitapide may also be used for purposes not listed in this medication guide.