Can New Diabetes Therapies Solve an Out-of-Control Epidemic?

The statistics are just plain scary. New estimates released by the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) to mark World Diabetes Day 2012 last week say that 371 million people have diabetes and 187 million diabetes cases remain undiagnosed. The IDF data mean that millions of people are at risk of costly and debilitating diabetes complications, including nerve and kidney disease.