New culprits emerge for diabetics

As the prevalence of diabetes has doubled in North Carolina and the nation over the past decade, doctors are only now beginning to unravel the complex series of cellular events that cause some people to develop the chronic disease, while others remain healthy.

And while a cure is elusive as ever, new findings among area researchers are creating additional targets for drug therapies - raising hope for the estimated 550,000 people in North Carolina who have diabetes. Click here for full article.