Diabetes is reaching epidemic proportions, with millions of people developing the disease each year. “Safe and effective treatments for preventing type 2 diabetes in persons at high risk for the disease are needed,” wrote Dr. Mitchell Katz, president and chief executive officer of New York City Health and Hospitals in an editor’s note in JAMA Internal Medicine on June 3.
What if effective treatments exist, but we lack access to them? A new study from China suggests that Jinlida granules, a traditional Chinese herbal medicine, could significantly reduce the risk of diabetes. However, regulatory hurdles make it difficult for such treatments to gain approval and become widely available in the United States....
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