Bill to Cap Insulin Prices Hinges on 10 GOP Votes
The House has passed a bill capping the monthly cost of insulin at $35 for insured patients, part of an election-year push by Democrats for price curbs on prescription drugs at a time of rising...
View ArticleChelsea Handler Has Been Saying Some Weird Stuff Lately
Considering all the warnings that come with most prescription medications, you'd think most people would be at least peripherally aware of those caveats before taking them. To do that, though, you'd...
View ArticleOne Quirk in Couples Health Study Is a Surprise
Living with a partner might help you maintain healthy blood sugar levels, a new study suggests. But the more surprising part of the research is that it doesn't seem to matter if you and your partner...
View ArticleAnother Drugmaker Joins Insulin Price Cuts
Novo Nordisk will start slashing some US insulin prices up to 75% next year, reports the AP , following a path set earlier this month by rival Eli Lilly . The Danish drugmaker said Tuesday that...
View ArticleIn California, an 'Extraordinary Move' on Insulin
Last summer, California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced that his state planned to manufacture its own, more affordable, insulin for diabetics there. Now, California has moved a step closer to making that a...
View Article70% of New Type 2 Diabetes Cases Are Linked to This
The CDC expects to see a 700% increase in the number of young Americans diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes by 2060. It's both a national and global problem and, according to new research, poor diet is...
View ArticleHealth Studies on Ice Cream Are 'Pretty Bonkers'
The headline of David Merritt Johns' story in the Atlantic refers to it as "nutrition science's most preposterous result." And in the story itself, Merritt Johns calls it "pretty bonkers." It seems...
View ArticleThis Drug Is Like a 'Medical Gastric Bypass' for Weight Loss
The medicine in the diabetes drug Mounjaro helped people with obesity or who are overweight lose at least a quarter of their body weight, or about 60 pounds on average, when combined with intensive...
View ArticleExpert: We're Managing Diabetes Completely Wrong
Insulin was a game-changer when doctors started giving it to patients with Type 1 diabetes in the 1920s. At the time, science journalist Gary Taubes explains to the Guardian , most people with the...
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