Diabetes study partially halted after deaths

Federal researchers announced Wednesday that they abruptly halted part of a major federal study of more than 10,000 middle-aged and older people with type 2 diabetes. The reason was that a treatment that most experts have long believed would save lives, lowering blood sugar to near normal levels, instead increased the risk of death....

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darn and it seemed like such a good idea for population control.