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From diagnosis to discrimination: The impact of living with diabetes in the workplace

As part of this year’s World Diabetes Day campaign, the International Diabetes Federation is encouraging everyone to know more and do more for diabetes at work.
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The human cost of diabetes-related retinopathy and the path to prevention

With 853 million people projected to live with diabetes by 2050, more than 250 million could experience some form of retinopathy.
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Building a roadmap for better paediatric diabetes care in LMICs

A growing number of children in LMICs face preventable complications from diabetes. Coordinated policies, early detection and global partnerships could change the narrative.
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Lyla Story, a bright and joyful two-year-old from Hull, pictured playing outside. Her tragic death from undiagnosed type 1 diabetes has inspired her family’s campaign for “Lyla’s Law”, calling for routine testing to ensure no other child is missed.
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Lyla’s law: a family’s fight for change after a preventable tragedy

After the preventable death of two-year-old Lyla Story, her family campaigns for a law to ensure routine testing to spot type 1 diabetes early.
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The triple burden: how metabolic syndrome and diabetes heighten Alzheimer’s risk

It is not simply the surging rates of diabetes or the quiet march of dementia that are drawing the concern of public health experts—but the potent and often overlooked interplay between the two.
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