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News Articles: diabetes

Adelaide Tovar, a postdoctoral geneticist at the University of Michigan, prepares cell samples in a science laboratory on campus. Tovar is one of about 200 young scientists who will lose research funding because the Trump administration abruptly ended the National Institute of Health's MOSAIC grant program. (Mike Hawkins)

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  • Health

As a diversity grant dies, young scientists fear it will haunt their careers

The Trump administration defunded the National Institute of Health's MOSAIC grant program, which launched the careers of scientists from diverse backgrounds.

April 28, 2025
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  • Brett Kelman
Georgia Behavioral Health Services are Set to Expand in South Georgia

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  • Health Care

Study considers how Georgians spend health care dollars compared to leading diseases, disorders

A new study from the Institute for Health Metrics compares health care spending in Georgia to the leading causes of poor health and early death. Researchers want to better understand the connection between health care and health outcomes.

March 13, 2025
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By:
  • Ellen Eldridge
An advertisement of a soft drink brand featuring a local music star in Mansa district, Punjab, India, on Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2023.

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  • Global Health

How soda is changing the world

A new study establishes that soda consumption is doing ever more damage to health — with rising rates of diabetes in regions where soda-drinking is on the rise, like sub-Saharan Africa.

January 13, 2025
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  • Rachel Carlson
Compounds found in cocoa are known to have health benefits. A new study adds to the evidence.

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  • Your Health

How sweet! A daily dose of dark chocolate may cut your risk of diabetes

A new study finds people who eat a small, daily serving of dark chocolate have a reduced risk of developing Type 2 diabetes. People who ate milk chocolate did not have a lower risk. Here's why.

December 05, 2024
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  • Allison Aubrey

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  • Health

Rising cases of diabetes in Georgia are linked to obesity, public health policy

Around 1 million people in the state have Type 2 Diabetes — and close to a quarter million more likely have it and don’t know, according to the Georgia Department of Public Health.

October 31, 2024
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By:
  • Ellen Eldridge
Two health workers see a patient.  “Cataract cut my main income source," the patient said before she had surgery. "I cannot sell anything, I cannot write anything. It’s difficult to continue with my job.”

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  • Global Health

Prize for the eyes: WHO honors film on Indonesia's pioneering women eye docs

The short documentary is called The Visionary Women of Indonesia. It profiles women ophthalmologists who are addressing the high rate of blindness in their country — and fighting sexism as well.

August 02, 2024
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  • Vicky Hallett
A T-shirt from fashion brand Namilia shown during Berlin Fashion on July 3, 2024 sparked an outcry on the brand's Instagram, with readers noting that Ozempic is in short supply for people with a medical need for it.

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  • Health

Ozempic's popularity leads to shortages for people with Type 2 diabetes

Drugs like Ozempic, Wegovy and Mounjaro are in such high demand that many patients with Type 2 diabetes can't get them when they need them.

July 10, 2024
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  • Sydney Lupkin
Ella Velez, center, speaks during a Thursday afternoon press conference at Piedmont Columbus Regional Hospital in Columbus, Georgia. With her are her mother, Lorna Velez, brother Alex Velez, and father Luis Velez.

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  • Health

A 15-year-old Columbus gymnast is one of first in world to receive new diabetes treatment

Fifteen-year-old Ella Velez’s favorite gymnastics event is vault. The vault is quick, and she doesn’t have to think very much about what she’s doing unlike other, slower events like the balance beam. But for the past couple of years, Velez has had to be focused on regulating her blood sugar every time she performs gymnastics. But a longtime endocrinologist based in Columbus, Dr. Steven Leichter, helped Piedmont Columbus Regional Midtown become one of the first medical facilities in the country to administer a new treatment designed to delay the onset of Type 1 diabetes.

May 28, 2024
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  • Brittany McGee
John Simon, a teenager who had a bariatric surgery in 2022, watches as his sister, Haley, opens a refrigerator for food in their apartment in Los Angeles, Monday, March 13, 2023.

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  • Children's Health

Preventative action is needed now to reduce Georgians' risk of disease in the future

Georgia ranks 49 in overall prevalence with 37.3% of children considered either overweight or obese. The Georgia prevalence of overweight and obese children has risen since 2003.

February 06, 2024
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  • Ellen Eldridge
People who consume higher amounts of red meat and processed meat are more likely to develop Type 2 diabetes than people who consume less, a new study finds.

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  • Your Health

Too much red meat is linked to a 50% increase in Type 2 diabetes risk

A study finds people who eat more than one serving of red meat a day are at higher risk of developing Type 2 diabetes. Processed meats, like bacon and hot dogs, were linked to an even higher risk.

October 19, 2023
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  • Allison Aubrey
EMTs help a patient in Austin, Texas, this week. The man had passed out near the state capitol and was dehydrated. Cities with few trees and areas of shade are hotter during heat waves.

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  • Health

How heat makes health inequity worse, hitting people with risks like diabetes harder

Heat is dangerous for the many people with common conditions like diabetes or heart disease. And vulnerable communities face greater exposure to heat and fewer resources to escape it.

August 10, 2023
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By:
  • Yuki Noguchi
A billboard opposing a Chick-fil-A in Children's Hospital of Georgia

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  • Health

Plant-based nutrition advocates pick a fight with planned Chick-fil-A at Augusta children's hospital

"If the Children’s Hospital of Georgia would like to be a place of wellness and healing, it should provide only affordable, plant-based options that can help people prevent diabetes, reduce high blood pressure and maintain a healthy weight, among other benefits," according to registered dietitians, doctors and nutrition experts with the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine.

July 18, 2023
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  • Ellen Eldridge
Attendees at a health fair at the  Balaji Temple, in Aurora, Ill., learn about the SAHELI diabetes prevention program.

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  • Health

'Hidden fat' puts Asian Americans at risk of diabetes. How lifestyle changes can help

Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders often develop diabetes at lower weights and younger ages than others. Doctors from these communities are pushing for earlier screenings and lifestyle changes.

June 10, 2023
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  • Pien Huang
A blood drop on a finger

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  • Children's Health

It's already used for adult diabetes. Now a clinical trial studies inhaled insulin for children

Inhalable insulin is available now under the brand name Afrezza. But only for adults with Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes.  

June 07, 2023
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  • Ellen Eldridge
Delores Lowery was diagnosed with diabetes in 2016. Her home in Marlboro County, S.C., is at the heart of what the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention calls the Diabetes Belt.

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  • Investigations

Many people living in the 'Diabetes Belt' are plagued with medical debt

More than half of the counties in the nation's so-called Diabetes Belt also have high rates of medical debt among their residents, an NPR analysis found.

May 12, 2023
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  • Robert Benincasa and
  • Nick McMillan
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