Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and Eli Lilly and Company Announce Updates to Prescribing Information for TRADJENTA® (linagliptin) Tablets and JENTADUETO® (linagliptin and metformin hydrochloride) Tablets

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June 20, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and Eli Lilly and Company (NYSE: LLY) announce the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved updates to the full U.S. Prescribing Information (PI) for TRADJENTA® (linagliptin) tablets and JENTADUETO® (linagliptin and metformin hydrochloride) tablets. These updates are part of ongoing efforts to update product labels to ensure physicians, pharmacists and patients have the information they need to use our medications appropriately. Information about pancreatitis was included in the adverse reactions sections of the original labels for these products; it is now displayed in additional sections of the PIs.1,2

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Linagliptin (BI-1356, trade names Tradjenta and Trajenta) is a DPP-4 inhibitordeveloped by Boehringer Ingelheim for treatment of type II diabetes.

Linagliptin (once-daily) was approved by the US FDA on 2 May 2011 for treatment of type II diabetes. It is being marketed by Boehringer Ingelheim and Lilly.