Topic: obesity drugs

Novo Nordisk: Preventing Disease or Making Profits On The Future of Diabetes?

Novo Nordisk: Preventing Disease or Making Profits On The Future of Diabetes?

Here at Blisstree, we get excited when people come up with creative ways to convey the statistics and studies we read about health, like this mural of the future of diabetes in the U.S. by artist Mark Cline. The mural illustrates the future of diabetes in America, in an effort to make policymakers aware of the looming cost (in dollars and lives) of the current obesity epidemic. But the mural doesn’t show the whole picture: Commissioned by a diabetes drug manufacturer, it (literally) draws a scary picture of our future health if we continue going down our current path, but it doesn’t show the healthiest way out. More »