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NEW YORK, May 16 (UPI) -- Type 2 diabetes is the fastest growing disease in the United States but federal budget cuts have alarmed researchers and experts, a report said.
Diabetes -- the only major U.S. disease with a climbing death rate -- has increased 22 percent since 1990. Type 2, or adult-onset, diabetes has doubled in 20 years to an estimated 20 million cases.
Despite the increase, federal research and treatment funding has dropped to $1.2 billion this year and faces further cuts next year, advocates told The New York Times.
"Diabetes is clearly one of the most important threats facing us and its funding is decades behind other diseases," said Dr. Georges Benjamin of the American Public Health Association.
"Diabetes is this massive tidal wave hitting the country," Dr. Aldo Rossini of the University of Massachusetts, told the Times, "and we're cutting our best hope at protection."
While federal health and budget spokesmen declined comment, some budget analysts said advocates failed to include millions in federal spending to fight obesity -- a leading cause of diabetes.
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The man who bit off parts of the face of a homeless man in Miami found his victim sleeping in the shade of elevated train tracks, video footage shows.
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NEW YORK, May 30 (UPI) --
The first installment of the American miniseries "Hatfields & McCoys" was seen by 13.9 million total viewers when it debuted, the History channel said.
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A panel of astrologers at a conference in New Orleans unanimously predicted U.S. President Barack Obama will win his re-election bid in November.
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