EU health ministers have pledged to act and tackle a sharp rise in diabetes across the union, with the number of European diabetes patients set to jump from 22.5 million last year to 60 million in 2025.
"Diabetes is surely the world's most underestimated illness," Austrian health minister Maria Rauch-Kallat said following the informal health council held in Vienna on Tuesday (25 April), according to press reports.
She said member states need to make a joint effort to tackle the w...
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