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Now in paperback--the controversial expose of the causes and treatments of diabetes, revised and updated. Diabetes Rising takes on the fastest-growing disease in history with a take-no-prisoner's attitude. Not willing to live with the enemy, Dan Hurley wants to kill it in its crib. --Chris Matthews, Host of MSNBC's Hardball with Chris Matthews In Diabetes Rising, investigative journalist Dan Hurley chronicles the modern diabetes epidemic: how the disease has grown so dramatically, why the American Diabetes Association focuses its attention on just a small handful of available treatments, and why the research being done today does not look beyond accepted types of treatments. With ground-breaking research and compelling stories told through an investigative, historical, and narrative lens, Diabetes Rising offers riveting insight into the struggle between a persistent malady and the medical community's ongoing search for answers. Just as Eric Schlosser's Fast Food Nation uncovered the sordid details leading to an epidemic of obesity, Dan Hurley uncovers the hidden truths about diabetes, including what is being researched and what is not.

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An important work...Well written, weaving personal stories, interviews with lead scientific researchers, and historical reviews to create an easy-to-read, complete look at the epidemic of diabetes. --Journal of the American Medical Association Diabetes Rising takes on the fastest-growing disease in history with a take-no-prisoner's attitude. You got to love the author's pugnacity. Dan Hurley takes the same approach to diabetes that Ronald Reagan took on the Cold War. Not willing to live with the enemy, he wants to kill it in its crib. --Chris Matthews, Host of MSNBC's Hardball with Chris Matthews . . .the real zingers in Hurley's account are the variety of new studies he reports in connection with the astonishing increase in overt or potential diabetes in nearly 25 percent of the world's adult population. -- Kirkus Reviews Books offering advice on living with diabetes are legion. Hurley provides instead a compelling layperson's overview of diabetes research enlivened by multiple interviews with scientists in the field. Diabetics and those who love them will find this a fascinating and hope-filled read. -- Library Journal, starred review ... fascinating, informative book... -- Booklist Few people are more qualified to write this medical mystery story. An award-winning journalist for medical publications and the New York Times, Hurley has been matching wits with the killer for thirty years inside his own body--he developed type I diabetes in 1975, and his description of his last supper as a non-diabetic on Thanksgiving is harrowing. One of the many strengths of this book, in fact, is Hurley's ability to juxtapose masses of historical medical information with highly personal stories, his own and those of others, which give a human face to this impersonal killer. We want a cure for diabetes, not just for mankind, but for Hurley and his young daughter. -- Foreword Diabetes Rising is ve

An important work...Well written, weaving personal stories, interviews with lead scientific researchers, and historical reviews to create an easy-to-read, complete look at the epidemic of diabetes. --Journal of the American Medical Association <p> Diabetes Rising takes on the fastest-growing disease in history with a take-no-prisoner's attitude. You got to love the author's pugnacity. Dan Hurley takes the same approach to diabetes that Ronald Reagan took on the Cold War. Not willing to live with the enemy, he wants to kill it in its crib. --Chris Matthews, Host of MSNBC's Hardball with Chris Matthews <p>. . .the real zingers in Hurley's account are the variety of new studies he reports in connection with the astonishing increase in overt or potential diabetes in nearly 25 percent of the world's adult population. -- Kirkus Reviews <p> Books offering advice on living with diabetes are legion. Hurley provides instead a compelling layperson's overview of diabetes research en

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Dan Hurley is a science writer and journalist who regularly contributes to The New York Times Science Times. He also writes for numerous medical newspapers, including Neurology Today (the newspaper of the American Academy of Neurology), Gastroenterology and Endoscopy News, Pharmacy Practice News, General Surgery News, and others. He has been senior writer at the Medical Tribune and contributing editor to Psychology Today, where his article on the violent mentally ill won the American Society of Journalists and Authors' award for investigative journalism in 1995. He is the former Vice President of the American Society of Journalists and Authors. He is also the author of Natural Causes: Death, Lies, and Politics in America's Vitamin and Herbal Supplement Industry and The 60-Second Novelist: What 22,613 People Taught Me About Life.

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