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The United Nations Takes on The Diabetes Epidemic

Posted: Monday, May 22, 2006

Diabetes has become an enormous international problem with the number expected to rocket to beyond 334 million.

Type 2 Diabetes Poses Early Death Risk

Posted: Monday, May 22, 2006

Patients with Type 2 diabetes, aged 35 to 54, are three times more likely to die early than those of the same age without the disease.

Beverage Industry Agrees to Halt Soda Sales in Schools

Posted: Monday, May 15, 2006

Bill Clinton, has done what public health experts failed to do. He pulled the plug on public school soda machines.

Diabetes Drug Use by Children Doubled in US Over 3-Year Period

Posted: Tuesday, April 25, 2006

Between 2002 to 2005, the use of agents to prevent or treat type 2 diabetes among US children, 5 to 19 years of age, increased from about 0.3 to 0.6 per 1000, which could have "enormous implications" for long-term healthcare needs and expenses.

Newer Diabetic Meds Cost More, But Users Have Fewer Hospital Visits

Posted: Thursday, April 20, 2006

A new study suggests that patients on the newer medications had a slightly lower risk of hospitalization because of diabetes-related complications. They also spent between $920 and $1,760 less on annual total healthcare costs. Diabetics who were prescribed newer medications to control their illness were more likely to take these drugs as instructed.

Tight Glycemic Control in Critically Ill Patients Translates Into Cost Savings

Posted: Thursday, April 20, 2006

Mean adjusted cost savings per patient was $1,580. In addition to the improvements in morbidity and mortality observed when ICU patients are maintained on intensive glycemia management protocols, health systems also benefit from substantially decreased costs.

Diabetes the First 3500 Years

Posted: Friday, March 24, 2006

Everybody has their own version of when diabetes first started, was documented and how insulin got to be the treatment. Here's an accurate time line for you.

Sixty-one Percent Increase In Diabetes-related Deaths And Illnesses

Posted: Friday, March 17, 2006

Researchers at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have documented a dramatic upsurge in diabetes-related deaths and illnesses in New York City, including a sharp increase in diabetic patients hospitalized with heart attacks.

U.S. Diabetes Population Grows 86 Percent Over Last Decade

Posted: Thursday, March 16, 2006

Research reveals diabetes complications are widespread and growing, and patients desire to gain better control.

Diabetes Deaths Worldwide on the Rise

Posted: Monday, October 03, 2005

Diabetes goes from 7th leading cause of death to 5th leading cause of death