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Death by diabetes: America's preventable epidemic

A series written by Neil Barsky exploring America's diabetes epidemic and the way that financial interests are preventing better health outcomes for millions of people with diabetes

25 July 2024

  • man with one leg in a wheelchair

    More than 100,000 Americans with diabetes have limbs amputated each year. This is a crisis

    Black Americans with diabetes are four times more likely to suffer amputations than white Americans

24 July 2024

  • A person learns how to use a glucometer at Childrens National Hospital in Washington, DC

    The FDA chief is right: we are failing people with diabetes

    Neil Barsky
    The $400bn in diabetes-related annual expenditures is breaking the back of our healthcare system. But there is an alternative

2 May 2024

  • ‘Over 100 million Americans have diabetes or prediabetes, and 100,000 die from the condition annually.’

    Does the American Diabetes Association work for patients or companies? A lawsuit dared to ask

    The ADA just settled an explosive legal case accusing the organization of betraying people with diabetes

18 April 2024

  • Graphic illustration of a person holding a massive bag of Splenda and pouring it onto and overflowing a bowl of cut cucumbers.

    She was fired after not endorsing Splenda-filled salads to people with diabetes. Why?

    Elizabeth Hanna says she was fired by the American Diabetes Association after refusing to approve recipes heaped with the additive made by a major donor

17 April 2024

  • ‘The ADA has a major say in how diabetes is managed globally.’

    Low-carb diets work. Why does the American Diabetes Association push insulin instead?

    The American Diabetes Association takes millions from companies that stand to profit from our reliance on drugs. Is that affecting their guidance?
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