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Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who leads the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, initiated a probe into the very high prices of Novo Nordisk’s diabetes and weight loss drugs, Ozempic and Wegovy. On Wednesday, Sanders wrote a letter to Novo Nordisk’s CEO, Lars Fruergaard Jørgensen, informing him about…

Some dairy farms could turn into lifesaving insulin factories.

The latin phrase “mens sana in corpore sano” has been put to the test by researchers who wanted to study what kind of repercussions an unhealthy lifestyle has on the mind. What they found was a dramatic increase in brain damage and dementia cases among subjects who have experienced high blood pressure, diabetes, smoking and obesity […]

About 2.3 million diagnosed with diabetes just in the UK, and it’s estimated that some 750.000 people have it but don’t know yet. Most of them have diabetes type 2, which is caused mostly by obesity and usually develops in middle age. Type 1, or insulin-dependent diabetes, is a less common autoimmune disease that results […]