Diabetes is the theme of this month’s edition of Drug Discovery Today’s Editor’s Choice newsletter. According to the latest data published by the World Health Organization (WHO) approximately 346 million people worldwide are living with diabetes today. If left untreated, chronic hyperglycemia can lead to several macrovascular and microvascular diabetic complications. In spite of the epidemic proportions, exploding healthcare costs, and the great impact this disease has on patients, health care providers, health care systems and insurers, to date, no cures have been identified yet.
18 October, 2011