CLEVELAND, July 29 /PRNewswire/ — With diabetes
affecting the lives of hundreds of thousands of people throughout
Ohio and Pennsylvania, Giant Eagle®, Inc. has
announced that it will begin offering five commonly prescribed
medications for the treatment of type 2 diabetes at no cost to
medical prescription holders.
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The program, which begins July 29,
includes the medications Glimepiride, Glipizide, Glyburide,
Metformin and Chlorpropamide which were previously available on the
supermarket retailer’s $4
prescription program. The free diabetes medication program
was piloted in Columbus and Toledo, Ohio in April and to date has
provided nearly $190,000 in customer
savings on diabetes medications.
Diabetes has become a leading cause of death in the United States, with more than 90
percent of the 24 million Americans diagnosed with type 2 diabetes.
As a result, Giant Eagle has joined the American Diabetes
Association’s (ADA) movement to Stop Diabetes®, and is offering
a multi-faceted program that includes free diabetes screenings and
a pharmacy Diabetes Care
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