New diabetes medicine are being included on the national health service as from Monday, Parliamentary Secreraty Chris Fearne said in a tweet today.

He said the new drugs - gliptins and repaglidine, were very effective for diabetics and although they were available in Malta they had never been available on the national health service.

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