Systems of excellence for diabetes and kidney disease are integrated, multidisciplinary care models designed to prevent, detect, and manage these two closely l…
In the summer of 1921, Canadian researchers Frederick Banting and Charles Best successfully extracted insulin from canine pancreatic tissue at the University of Toronto,…
Building on the 1936 pathological description by Paul Kimmelstiel and Clifford Wilson of nodular glomerulosclerosis in diabetic patients, nephrology research through the…
The Diabetes Control and Complications Trial (DCCT), a landmark US National Institutes of Health study enrolling 1,441 patients with Type 1 diabetes across 29 centres, p…
In 2001, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), in collaboration with the Madras Diabetes Research Foundation led by Dr V. Mohan, published the first nationally…
In 2005, India's Ministry of Health and Family Welfare piloted the National Programme for Prevention and Control of Cancer, Diabetes, Cardiovascular Diseases and Stroke…
At the European Society of Cardiology Congress in Stockholm in August 2015, Boehringer Ingelheim and Eli Lilly presented the EMPA-REG OUTCOME trial results, showing that…
Launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on September 23, 2018, Ayushman Bharat's Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (PM-JAY) extended health insurance coverage of ₹5 lakh…
Published in April 2019 in the New England Journal of Medicine, the CREDENCE trial was the first randomised controlled trial designed specifically for patients with Type…
The International Diabetes Federation's Diabetes Atlas 10th Edition, released in December 2021, placed India's adult diabetes population at 74.2 million — a figure proje…
In June 2023, the Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology published the ICMR-INDIAB study — the largest nationally representative diabetes survey ever conducted in India, coveri…
By 2024, India's leading hospital networks — including Apollo Hospitals, Manipal Health Enterprises, and Max Healthcare — had deployed AI-powered clinical decision suppo…
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