Health
Half a billion people have diabetes. But most don’t know about it – The New Daily
Half a billion people have diabetes. Most of them aren’t getting proper treatment. And more than half may not know they have the disease.
Nearly half a billion people have diabetes, but most of them aren’t receiving proper treatment and more than half have not yet been formally diagnosed with the disease, according to a new global investigation.
Many people simply don’t know they have a condition that is relatively easy and cheap to treat and one that, left untreated, will shorten their lives, wreck their hearts, blow an artery in their brains, savage their nerves, send them blind or cause their legs to be chopped off.
The big picture…
-
Noosa News24 hours agoQueensland government to review greenhouse gas emission reduction targets
-
Noosa News23 hours agoAnother All-Star Cast, Another Tale of Family Chaos: The Trailer for Wes Anderson’s ‘The Phoenician Scheme’ Is Here
-
Business21 hours agoshould I buy hedged or unhedged ASX US-focused ETFs?
-
Noosa News22 hours agoBrisbane news live: Broken-down train causes peak-hour delays