A team of UK-based researchers have developed a method for people, no matter the ethnicity, to know their risk of having diabetes online. The Departments of Cardiovascular Sciences and Health Sciences of University of Leicester, lead by Professors Melanie Davies and Kamlesh Khunti, have teamed up with Diabetes UK and University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust to come up with the Diabetes Risk Score system. The we...

Data gathered from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) shows that US hospitals have spent $83 billion caring for diabetic patients in 2008. in the same year, about one in five hospitalizations involved a patient with diabetes. The amount mentioned is 23 percent of what hospitals in the US spent overall to treat all conditions in 2008. This includes costs associated with 540,000 diabetes related h...

According to a recent study, around 30 percent of adults with diabetes in the United States who are over 40 years old are said to have diabetic retinopathy with around 4 percent of them having the type that can threaten their eyesight. Diabetic retinopathy is the damage to the retina as a result of complications of diabetes milletus. Diabetic milletus is said to be the leading cause of legal blindness among US adu...

Many diabetics across America are deprived of health insurance simply because insurers do not cover diabetes in their insurance policies.  However, diabetic people can still avail for a health insurance through the "high-risk pool" program. Thirty states has established high-risk pools that offer health insurance coverage to residents who are "uninsurable" because private insurers might tur...

Not many are lucky enough to be insured either by the company they work for or through public programs like Medicare, which is why they resort to buying individual insurance coverage.  However, not all insurance companies are willing to provide coverage for chronic diseases like diabetes.  But there are ways to be able to purchase health insurance despite the obstacles being faced by diabetics. In the cas...