Abstract:
The invention provides sustained release formulations of metformin or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, and methods of treating diabetes by administering to a patient a therapeutically effective amount of a sustained release formulation of metformin or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.
Abstract:
The invention relates to compositions useful for making tablets which can be formed using conventional tableting machines and which disintegrate rapidly when placed in the mouth. The compositions typically include partially hygroscopic shearform matrices which may be recrystallized using crystallization promoters.