President Joe Biden misrepresented the history of insulin during his State of the Union address Tuesday. “[Insulin] has been around for over a hundred years. The guy who invented it didn’t even patent ...

Hello again, dear readers, and welcome to a bonus letters column. This comes to you courtesy of the abundance of mail we have been receiving. We have a pair of interesting questions to cover, so let’s ...

Before the discovery of insulin, a diagnosis of diabetes was almost a death sentence. Physicians could do little more than ...

The history of insulin remains a cautionary tale. It was a considerable advance in care, transforming lives in ways we cannot imagine. It was the first biosimilar and the newer forms and devices have ...

“The story of insulin is one that highlights the shortcomings of an inherently destructive economic system,” writes historian Bradwel in his meticulous debut. As early as 1552 BCE, diabetes was a ...

Why, nearly 100 years after the discovery of insulin, are no low-priced generic versions available? The complicated answer to that question is explored in a special article published in the March 19 ...

The subjects were recruited from middle school students (aged 13–15 years) in Hebei province during 2006 and were considered eligible if their systolic blood pressure (SBP) and diastolic BP (DBP) are ...