SPOTLIGHT: Welcome to "Diabesity"

At Hospital Impact, Tony Chen blogs about "diabesity"--the combination of diabetes and obesity that's quickly becoming one of this nation's most pressing medical concerns. With ever-rising healthcare costs, the impending bankruptcy of Medicare and an enormous number of baby boomers headed for their senior years, how can hospitals deal with this epidemic? "No nation has ever faced this double-whammy of the graying and widening of [the] population at such a pace," Chen observes. Blog

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