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Fiction writer Timothy Westmoreland has type 1 diabetes, a chronic illness that need not be, for most people today, catastrophic. But for Westmoreland the illness has been about as bad as can be — and...
View ArticleFDA Panel Votes to Keep Avandia on the Market
More than 23 million Americans suffer from type 2 diabetes. After it was approved by the FDA in 1999, Avandia quickly became the world's most popular drug to treat type 2 diabetes. However, in 2007...
View ArticleStudy Shows Double in Global Diabetes Cases Over Three Decades
The number of adults worldwide with Type 2 diabetes—formerly called adult-onset diabetes—has doubled over the past three decades, to 350 million people, according to a new study by the British medical...
View ArticleIs Our Blood Pressure Rising With the Foreclosure Rate?
It doesn't take a scientist to conclude that going through the foreclosure process is stressful. Even the threat of being foreclosed on can make one's blood pressure rise. But science can show the very...
View ArticlePaula Deen's Diabetes
Marion Nestle, Professor in the Department of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health, and Professor of Sociology, at New York University, reacts to the news that Food Network star (and butter...
View ArticleChildren with Type 2 Diabetes Resist Drug Treatment, Study Finds
Once upon a time, type 2 diabetes was a disease reserved almost exclusively for adults. But as obesity has become more prevalent among young people, so too has type 2 diabetes. A troubling study on the...
View ArticleSouth Asian New Yorkers Have Higher Diabetes Rate Than Others
Asian immigrants in New York City are less likely than U.S.-born residents to have diabetes, according to a new study.But there's a big exception.South Asians—those from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh,...
View ArticleNYC Deaths From Diabetes Doubled in Last 20 Years
About 11 percent of New Yorkers who die have diabetes as a primary or secondary cause. That’s a proportion that’s nearly doubled over the last two decades. The New York City Department of Health and...
View ArticleCommunities Fight Mississippi's Diabetes Crisis
The state of Mississippi isn't exactly known for having a stellar track record when it comes to good health. According to physicians, about one-third of the state's population will suffer from diabetes...
View ArticleCDC: Diabetes on The Decline
Click on the audio player above to hear this interview.Today, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that the number of new diabetes cases in the U.S. has finally started to fall.For...
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For depression, primary care doctors could be a barrier to treatment
More often than not, according to a new study published Monday, primary care practices fall short in teaching patients about managing their depression. Photo illustration by Getty ImagesOften referred...
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What’s behind skyrocketing insulin prices?
A person receives a test for diabetes during Care Harbor L.A. free medical clinic in Los Angeles, California September 11, 2014. The four-day clinic provides free medical, dental and vision care,...
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Why there’s been a dangerous diabetes spike around the globe
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJUDY WOODRUFF: And now, an alarming new report about the dramatic growth of diabetes across the globe.The World Health Organization said today that an estimated 422...
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The Robot Vacuum Ate My Pancreas
“A Roomba ate my pancreas!” It sounds like the plot of a weird sci-fi comedy. But in Dana Lewis’s life, this is just a normal day.Lewis is one of the first people in America to create her own...
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Diabetes Hacking 101
In this week’s episode we met a woman whose pancreas is changing medicine. Dana Lewis has Type 1 diabetes, and when it was clear that medical manufacturers were behind on creating the device she needed...
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New food labels to emphasize calories, amount of ‘added sugar’
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJUDY WOODRUFF: The labels on the food we buy will be getting a new look. The Food and Drug Administration rolled out rules today with a greater emphasis on displaying...
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Diabetes linked to risk of mental health hospitalization in young adults
A person receives a test for diabetes at a free medical clinic in Los Angeles, California. Photo by Mario Anzuoni /ReutersYoung people with diabetes were four times more likely to be hospitalized for...
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Oakland hackers take a stab at making crowdfunded insulin
Counter Culture Labs in Oakland wants to disrupt the medical industry. Photo by Andrew Stelzer/KQEDHow many times have you had a conversation about when are “they” going to find a cure for the common...
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How the sugar industry artificially sweetened Harvard research
U.S. farmer James Daniels, 57, from Missouri, and member of an agricultural delegation visiting Cuba walks at a sugar refinery in Candelaria, Cuba, March 3, 2015. The most important U.S. agricultural...
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The insulin market is heading for a shakeup. But patients may not benefit
Diabetics kit with blood test meter and finger pricker, with short and long acting vials of insulin with injection needle. Photo via Getty ImagesThe insulin market, dominated by old drugs that have...
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Diabetes-related kidney disease drops among Native Americans
Paul Rooks, left, 49, his wife Ester, center, and son Damon chat in their home while waiting to depart for the clinic on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota on June 25, 2001. A member of...
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Self-empowerment is sweet for diabetes patients in this innovative program
Watch VideoHARI SREENIVASAN: More than eight million Americans suffer from diabetes, and more than $320 billion are spent every year treating the disease.But an innovative program in San Diego is...
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Nevada bill would require insulin makers to post profits
A Novo Nordisk employee controls a machine at an insulin production line in a plant in Kalundborg, Denmark November 4, 2013. REUTERS/Fabian Bimmer/File PhotoPatients notched a rare win over the...
View ArticleBattling Obesity as the Water Rises
Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this interview. Each year, about 16 square miles vanish from the Louisiana coast. In 1916, water made up 10 percent the area surrounding Terrebone Bay. By...
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Tired of taking pills for diabetes? How about a shot of broccoli?
A compound found in broccoli improves diabetic outcomes to an extent that rivals the go-to drug treatment, according to a new study. Photo by Flickr user LID/Jonas Ingold.Pills, pills, pills. It seems...
View ArticleSugarland: Why Is Diabetes Growing So Rapidly?
Diabetes is the fastest-growing chronic disease in the United States. While there are two types of diabetes, the vast majority of patients have type 2 diabetes. Type 2 typically develops in adults and...
View ArticleQuiz: How Can Diabetes Be Treated?
The medical research community is making big strides in diabetes and prediabetes treatment. So, perhaps, is your local YMCA. Take our quiz to see how much you know about the future of treating the...
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Sugarland
Click here to listen to the stories in our radio series. Think you know everything about diabetes? Take our quiz and find out.Sugarland was edited by Rhyne Piggott and Christopher Werth....
View ArticleMueller Subpoenas Former Trump Aide; NYPD's Dark Secrets; WNYC Series on...
Coming up on today's show: Edward-Isaac Dovere, chief Washington correspondent for POLITICO, discusses the latest political news and MSNBC host Ari Melber talks about what (if anything) former Trump...
View ArticleQuiz: Do You Know the Difference Between Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes?
Say a 25-year-old patient walks into their doctor's office underweight, thirsty, and needing to urinate constantly. Is it safe to assume that this patient, like the vast majority of diabetics, is type...
View ArticleSugarland: 'An Epidemic of Misdiagnosis'
Rates of type 2 diabetes, which typically develops later in life for most patients, have grown to epidemic proportions. However, a growing number of adults are also being diagnosed with type 1, or what...
View ArticleWNYC's 'Sugarland' Looks at Diabetes Prevention
Dr. Cheryl Olson, author and researcher who advises on how media can change behavior and the person behind WNYC's "Sugarland" series on diabetes, talks about cost-effective ways to prevent people from...
View ArticleSugarland: As Diabetes Rate Skyrockets, So Does Cost of Insulin
At 24, Alec Raeshawn Smith -- a native of Minneapolis, Minnesota -- was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, which meant he suddenly needed a steady supply of insulin and other costly medical supplies,...
View ArticleSugarland: Key to Diabetes Is for Medicine to Get More Personal
Diabetes is the fastest-growing chronic disease in the United States, and one of the most expensive to maintain. And while there's no cure, recent advances have given some diabetics and physicians...
View ArticleInsulin Marketplace, Hair, Whale Size. December 13, 2019, Part 2
Why Diabetes Patients Are Getting Insulin From FacebookAlmost one in ten Americans are diagnosed with diabetes, according to the most recent statistics from the CDC. With those odds, you likely know...
View ArticleFunding the Cure: But For Whom?
In 1983, Congress passed the Orphan Drug Act which incentivized the development of treatments for rare diseases. Since passing, the legislation has helped to create hundreds of new treatments for rare...
View ArticleInsulin Can Cost Hundreds Per Month. Democratic Lawmakers in NY, NJ Want To...
According to the American Diabetes Association, an estimated two million New Yorkers and 650,000 people in New Jersey live with diabetes. From 2001 to 2019, the price of a one-month supply of insulin...
View ArticleScience Issues In the Election, Diabetes and Hibernating Bears, Medicine...
The Politics Of Science: Voters Have An Important VoiceThis November’s general election season covers every level of government, from Congress at the federal level, to state governors and local ballot...
View Article10 Nutrition Myths: Calories Equal Weight Gain and Diabetics Can't Eat Fruit
All this week, the Brian Lehrer Show will be taking a closer look at some of the most pervasive nutrition myths with Sophie Egan, author of How to Be a Conscious Eater: Making Food Choices That Are...
View ArticleHow Weight-Loss Drugs Are Redefining Obesity
For the past few months, the U.S. has faced shortages for hundreds of drugs – everything from prescription drugs like Adderall to over-the-counter necessities like baby aspirin. According to the FDA,...
View ArticleJia Tolentino on the Celebrity Obsession with Ozempic
The prescription drug Ozempic was designed to help people with Type 2 diabetes manage their disease, and, under the name Wegovy, to treat obesity. But it has been embraced recently as a tool for weight...
View ArticleHow A Deaf Advisory Group Is Changing Healthcare
When Tamiko Rafeek admitted herself to the hospital a few years ago, she asked for an interpreter. “I was feeling very, very sick that day,” she recalled. Rafeek is deaf, and the Americans with...
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