Diabetes Drug Use Spikes Amongs U.S. Kids

Filed under: In The News — @ November 18, 2007

Note from Connie: What kind of future will our children face if they continually gain weight and develop type 2 diabetes. Now alarming news has been released, which shows that American adolescents doubled their use of diabetes drugs between the years 2002 and 2005. Jennifer Moore bring you the details.

As Connie noted in her introduction, American children are taking diabetes drugs in alarming amounts — they’ve doubled their use between 2002 and 2005, according to research presented by the Saint Louis University School of Medicine and School of Public Health and Express Scripts, a St. Louis company that manages drug benefits for millions of Americans.

Read more about this startling news here.