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5 stories tagged "diabetes"
The American Diabetes Association Had Police Remove the Editor of Its Own Journal. Then It Refused to Print His Reply.
Steven Kahn edits the ADA's own journal. In June its meeting had state police walk him out for handing out one of its editorials. In July it refused to print the response he and his colleagues wrote. He calls it what it is: pure censorship.
Brain & AgingThe Sweeteners Sold to Diabetics as the Safe Swap Tracked With Faster Brain Aging
Brazilian researchers followed 12,772 adults for eight years. The ones consuming the most artificial sweeteners, about a diet soda's worth a day, showed cognitive decline equal to 1.6 extra years of brain aging, and diabetics fared worst.
Brain & AgingA viral diabetes-and-dementia explainer left out the trial that just killed its big drug story
A widely shared "ten ways diabetes and dementia are linked" explainer is going around this week, and it skips the Phase 3 trial that, weeks earlier, demolished its brain-protection story for semaglutide.
Metabolic & WeightThe Ozempic 'Resistance' Headline the Data Didn't Quite Earn
A new study identifies PAM-gene variants tied to weaker six-month HbA1c response to GLP-1 diabetes drugs, but the 'why Ozempic may not work' framing imports a weight-loss conclusion the paper doesn't reach, and the buried trials that used longer-acting GLP-1 drugs showed no carrier effect at all.
InvestigationsCops shoved a doctor at the ADA meeting. The editorial they tore up has its own credibility problem.
Police escorted ADA members out of New Orleans on Friday for passing out an editorial against Trump's NIH overhaul. The shove was bad. The editorial defending the status quo has a credibility problem the press is mostly missing.