Lower insulin costs could be coming to Shelby County diabetes patients
Therron Farsee, Jr., (left) gives his mother Dinishia Jones her insulin shot. According to the 2021 Tennessee Diabetes Action Report, 13.8% of adults in the state have been diagnosed with diabetes. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian file)
According to the 2021 Tennessee Diabetes Action Report, 13.8% of adults in the state have been diagnosed with diabetes, and Type 2 Diabetes accounts for 90%-95% of Tennessee’s diagnosed cases.
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Aisling Mäki covers health care, banking and finance, technology and professions. After launching her career in news two decades ago, she worked in public relations for almost a decade before returning to journalism in 2022.
As a health care reporter, she’s collaborated with The Carter Center, earned awards from the Associated Press and Society of Professional Journalists and won a 2024 Tennessee Press Association first-place prize for her series on discrepancies in Shelby County life expectancy by ZIP code.
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