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The Price of Insulin Has Soared. These Biohackers Have a Plan to Fix It

By Grant Burningham

How Neuroscience Could Explain the Rise of Addictions, Heart Disease and Diabetes in 21st Century America

By Peter Sterling

Weight-Loss Surgery Dramatically Lowers the Risk of Early Death, a New Study Finds

By Alice Park

How the Microbiome Might Predict Diabetes, Premature Birth and Gut Diseases

By Alice Park
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Researchers Are Working on a Surprising Way to Deliver Insulin Without an Injection: Swallowing the Needle

The device hasn't yet been tested in people

By Alice Park

Working Long Hours Can Raise the Risk of This Disease

Women who worked more than 45 hours a week had a higher risk

By Alice Park

There’s Hope for a Vaccine to Prevent Type 1 Diabetes

The new study is small but promising

By Alexandra Sifferlin

Controlling Health Care Costs By Listening to Patients

Health care costs in the United States are in the trillions, and finding solutions to cut costs are becoming critical for medical care sustainability. During a conversation with health leaders about health care cost-cutting, experts...

By Alexandra Sifferlin

How Other People's Stress Impacts Your Brain

These are today's best ideas

By The Aspen Institute

There May Be Five Types of Diabetes

These are today's best ideas

By The Aspen Institute

Your Car Company Might Know More About You Than Your Spouse

These are today's best ideas

By The Aspen Institute

President Trump Reportedly Drinks 12 Diet Cokes a Day. Here’s What That Does to Your Body

Based on early research

By Jamie Ducharme

Weight Loss Really Can Reverse Diabetes, New Study Finds

Type 2 diabetes is a chronic condition that affects 422 million people worldwide. For decades, doctors have treated it with medications designed to keep blood sugar levels down. But in a paper published in the...

By Alice Park

The Surprising Reason You Should Stop Skipping Breakfast

People who skip breakfast are more likely to have dangerous plaque buildup in their arteries, which puts them at increased risk for cardiovascular disease, according to a new study. Skipping breakfast has been associated with...

By Amanda MacMillan

How Weight Loss Can Reverse Type 2 Diabetes

An analysis published in The BMJ aims to let doctors and the public in on a little-known secret: Type 2 diabetes, in many cases, is curable. People can reverse their diabetes by losing about 33...

5 Ways Being Tall Affects Your Health

The good and the bad

By Amanda MacMillan

7 Ways to Keep Your Brain Sharp As You Age

There's mounting evidence that some of the best things you can do for your brain are also some of the best for your body. A new scientific advisory from the American Heart Association and American...

By Amanda MacMillan

Mindfulness May Lower Blood Sugar Levels

Being overweight is stressful on the body, and stress can worsen obesity-related health issues and make it harder to shed pounds—throwing people into a vicious cycle that seems impossible to escape. Now, a new study...

By Amanda MacMillan

5 Ways Men Shape Their Children’s Health

Women are often told that what they eat, how much they drink and the choices they make can have a big impact on their children’s health and development, even long before they get pregnant. But...

By Amanda MacMillan

Here's What Skipping Breakfast Does to Your Body

It's a hotly contested question in the nutrition world: is breakfast really the most important meal of the day? Experts say that people who eat breakfast are less likely to overeat the rest of the...

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