Cover Stories – Connect https://connect.asmbs.org The Official News Magazine of ASMBS Mon, 13 Aug 2018 12:50:26 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.6 American Diabetes Association Report: Diabetes is the Most Expensive Chronic Disease in America https://connect.asmbs.org/07-2018/american-diabetes-association-report-diabetes-is-the-most-expensive-chronic-disease-in-america Tue, 26 Jun 2018 11:00:12 +0000 https://staging.connect.asmbs.org/?p=206 At a cost of $327 billion, diabetes has become the most expensive chronic disease in the U.S., according to the American Diabetes Association’s (ADA) recently released “Economic Costs of Diabetes…

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]]> Obesity Medicine Specialty Grows in Response to Obesity Epidemic https://connect.asmbs.org/05-2018/obesity-medicine-specialty-grows-in-response-to-obesity-epidemic Wed, 16 May 2018 21:00:36 +0000 http://connect.asmbs.test/2018/05/16/may-2018-abom/ More than 2,650 physicians are now board certified in obesity medicine in the United States and Canada, making obesity medicine one of the fastest growing fields in medicine. In 2013,…

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