Diabetes

Diabetes remains a major health problem in Alabama. The State’s Department of Public Health listed the ailment as the seventh-biggest cause of death here in 2019. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says one in five diabetes patients in the U.S. don’t know they have the disease. Denmark is working on its own rising caseload, and a possible solution. This story was made possible by a grant by the Caring Foundation.

The Biden administration said Thursday that drug price negotiations will knock hundreds of dollars — in some cases thousands — off the list prices of 10 of Medicare's most popular and costliest drugs. The Department of Health and Human Services says just two diabetes drugs, on the list for price cuts, are used by over fifty thousand Alabamians on Medicare.

Alabama health officials say patients using inject-able medicines for diabetes are working to lose weight, and that’s creating a drug shortage for diabetics.

November is National Diabetes Month and health officials say that should serve as a wake-up call to Alabama especially.The Centers for Disease Control and…

The City of Mobile has the highest rate of diabetes within the last year. That’s according to a new study that surveyed nearly 200 communities across the…

A newly-created panel is trying to find ways to make it easier for nearly 2 million Alabamians to eat healthier food.The Alabama Healthy Food Financing…

The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating an accident that occurred during the Tuscaloosa Air Show yesterday.Two small stunt planes collided…

Alabama has one of the worst rates of diabetes in the nation. Harvard doctor Osama Hamdy says the rate of diabetes has increased 82 percent in the nation…

The nation's diabetes problem is getting worse, and health officials say the biggest changes have been in Oklahoma and a number of Southern states. The…