#Sanders launches investigation into ‘unacceptable’ diabetes, weight loss drug prices

#Sanders launches investigation into ‘unacceptable’ diabetes, weight loss drug prices

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, on Wednesday launched an investigation into the “outrageously high prices” of Novo Nordisk’s respective diabetes and weight loss drugs, Ozempic and Wegovy. On Wednesday, Sanders penned a letter to Novo Nordisk’s chief executive officer, Lars Fruergaard Jørgensen, notifying him of…

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#Boys whose dads took metformin likely to have defects: study

#Boys whose dads took metformin likely to have defects: study

“Boys whose dads took metformin likely to have defects: study” A popular diabetes drug could be linked to major birth defects, according to researchers.  In a study from Stanford University, the University of Southern Denmark and Copenhagen University, published Tuesday in the Annals of Internal Medicine, the authors wrote that the offspring of male patients who were taking metformin…

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#Diabetics make up 40% of COVID deaths in US, experts say

#Diabetics make up 40% of COVID deaths in US, experts say

“#Diabetics make up 40% of COVID deaths in US, experts say” People with diabetes account for a staggering 40 percent of those who have died from COVID-19 in the US, according to the American Diabetes Association. “The pandemic disproportionately impacted people living with diabetes,” the ADA’s chief scientific and medical officer, Dr. Robert Gabbay, told…

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