Diabetes: A Heavy Cost
Science & Scientists
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1h 25m
Directed by Benoit Rossel, Dorothée Frénot • Documentary • 2021 • 85 minutes
Diabetes will affect one adult in 10 by 2040. It is ruining lives and weighing heavily on public finances. The disease is still not being treated properly. A whole system has gone off track because patients either take too many drugs or can no longer afford them. Only the pharmaceutical industry seems to be thriving in this bleak health situation.
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