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Diabetes

A person wearing a glucose monitor linked to a smartphone | Photo: Jesus Rodriguez/iStock

Health

Glucose Monitors Are Finally Available Over the Counter

Over-the-counter continuous glucose monitors empower consumers with valuable health insights without the need for a doctor’s prescription.

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 12.25.2024 7:00 AM

An overweight man is seen standing in front of a paper with information on Ozempic | Illustration: Lex Villena; Aniloracru, KKfotostock | Dreamstime.com

Innovation

Obesity in the U.S. Is Finally Declining. You Can (Probably) Thank Ozempic.

The medication shouldn't be this controversial.

Billy Binion | 10.4.2024 5:11 PM

ozempic injector on polka dot background | Illustration: Lex Villena; Aniloracru

Prescription Drugs

It's Time for Over-the-Counter Ozempic

There's an easy way to lower the cost of next-generation weight-loss drugs.

Charles M. Silver, Jeffrey A. Singer, and Michael F. Cannon | 5.22.2024 8:00 AM

John Stossel holds a Coke | Stossel TV

Nanny State

Five Years Later, Philadelphia's Soda Tax Is Falling Flat

The city wanted to bring in more money, in part for early childhood education. But such taxes are disproportionately paid by the poor.

John Stossel | 9.13.2023 12:30 AM

The advent of effective new drugs like semaglutide and tirzepatide offers hope for millions of overweight people. | Novo Nordisk

Prescription Drugs

The End of Obesity?

The advent of effective new weight loss drugs offers hope for millions of overweight people.

Ronald Bailey | 3.10.2023 12:00 PM

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Reason Roundup

CDC Pushes Flawed Study on Kids, COVID-19, and Diabetes

Plus: Noncitizens can vote in New York City, making baseball fair, and more...

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 1.10.2022 9:30 AM

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Technology

Humans Are Building Better Versions of Themselves

From insulin to prosthetics, technology makes this the best moment yet to be living with a disability.

Mike Riggs | 7.15.2019 6:00 AM

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Nutrition

Is Keto the Cure for Type II Diabetes?

A drug-free approach might be the best treatment we have for America's most ubiquitous lifestyle disease.

Mike Riggs | 2.28.2018 2:40 PM

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Sugar

Is Sugar an Addictive Poison?

Hypothesis: More sugar causes both more diabetes and more obesity

Ronald Bailey | 1.6.2017 1:30 PM

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Sugar

Is Sugar an Addictive Killer? New at Reason

Ronald Bailey reviews The Case Against Sugar.

Ronald Bailey | 1.6.2017 1:30 PM

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Sugar

Sugar Wars: Junk Food, Junk Science, or Both?

Big Sugar and the politicization of science

Ronald Bailey | 12.20.2016 5:00 PM

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Science & Technology

U.S. Gov Spends Billions on Diabetes Research, But Scientists Already Know the Cure

Millions of people could shake Type 2 diabetes if they just lost some weight.

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 12.2.2015 1:55 PM

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Life expectancy

U.S. Death Rate Decline Has Slowed

And still the ultimate death rate remains frustratingly stuck at 100 percent.

Ronald Bailey | 10.28.2015 12:06 PM

Saccharin

Nature Artificial Sweetener Study Bogus, Says American Council on Science and Health

Ronald Bailey | 9.18.2014 5:39 PM

Sugar

Are Artificial Sweeteners Responsible for the Diabetes and Obesity Epidemics?

Ronald Bailey | 9.18.2014 11:31 AM

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