If people with diabetes are not offered this level of care, they should insist on it and complain if they don't get it.

BBC: 'Feet first' for diabetes patients

If it's not kept under control, diabetes also can cause infections that may lead to leg or foot amputations.

CNN: 5 million more people living with diabetes

Because diabetes is a progressive disease, many, if not most, patients end up on it eventually.

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Regardless, this company, on a stand-alone basis, could change the way cancer, diabetes, and other horrible diseases are treated if not cured.

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Even if it is not, the destruction of pancreatic cells that comes with diabetes may be unrelated to the development of insulin resistance.

ECONOMIST: Metabolic syndrome

Many doctors see a lot of brand name drugs that treat most, if not all, chronic conditions like high cholesterol, hypertension, asthma and diabetes available in cheaper generic form but paying to delay generics is unnecessarily keeping certain brand names on the market.

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If you have diabetes, your body isn't making any or is not making enough insulin -- or it can't properly use the insulin it is producing.

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"This is not rocket science to take care of yourself these days if you have type 1 diabetes, " he said.

CNN: The story

The stakes are high: if we do not solve this problem, many among America's next generation will face diabetes, heart disease, cancer, and other health problems associated with obesity.

WHITEHOUSE: The White House

The Food and Drug Administration has released the briefing documents for the expert meeting in which it will ask a panel of doctors whether or not the GlaxoSmithKline diabetes drug Avandia should remain on the market, and, if so, what warnings patients should get before they take it.

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