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New Medical Specialty Needed to Manage Growing Number of Americans With Diabetes
August 20, 2018
CHICAGO, Illinois, Aug. 20 -- The American Osteopathic Association issued the following news release:

The emerging field of diabetology--a sub-specialty of endocrinology focused on the treatment of people with diabetes--is intended to address an emerging crisis in health care: nearly one-third of Americans has a type 2 diabetes diagnosis or has prediabetes.

Compounding this problem, numbers of endocrinologists, the physicians who specialize in treating diabetes, are dwi . . .

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