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In 1991, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles stumbled into a fight with the American beef industry. A children’s alphabet book featuring the cartoon heroes warned about methane from cattle warming the planet and urged readers to eat less meat. The National Cattlemen’s Association made a big fuss out of it and Random House, the publisher of the book in question, agreed not to reprint it.

Among cancer patients, the high financial cost of cancer care is a prevalent problem. This financial burden is also associated with potentially harmful behavioral strategies that patients might use to cope with costs, such as delaying or forgoing treatment and skipping medications. Collectively, researchers refer to this impact as financial toxicity.

Continuous glucose monitors (CGMs) could transform diabetes management for millions of Americans with type 2 diabetes who don't take insulin, according to findings published in the New England Journal of Medicine. The clinical trial found that adults using CGMs spent approximately five additional hours each day within their target blood sugar range compared with those receiving routine care. Nearly twice as many CGM users also achieved an A1c level below 7%, a common treatment goal for people with diabetes.