Diabetes: Series in The NY Times

Last week, the Times ran a 4-day series on diabetes.  In addition to some public-health insights and patient stories, the series included a fascinating article on reimbursement policy and the perverse incentives it creates for practitioners who treat this disease.  Here are the titles and links:

• East Meets West, Adding Pounds and Peril
  By MARC SANTORA
  Asians are acutely susceptible to diabetes, a factor that is compounded by recent immigrants' collision with American diet.
  Slide Show: The Gathering Storm
• In the Treatment of Diabetes, Success Often Does Not Pay
  By IAN URBINA
  Doctors and hospitals profit by treating complications of diabetes but lose money when they try to prevent them.
  Graphic: Good Care, Bad Business
• Living at an Epicenter of Diabetes, Defiance and Despair
  By N. R. KLEINFIELD
  In East Harlem, an invisible web of diabetes stretches throughout the neighborhood, touching nearly every life with its menace.
• Diabetes and Its Awful Toll Quietly Emerge as a Crisis
  By N. R. KLEINFIELD
  An estimated 800,000 adult New Yorkers now have diabetes, and city health officials describe the problem as an epidemic.
• By the Numbers: One Scourge in 2 Forms
  Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes are diseases in which the amount of sugar in the blood rises to dangerous levels. Neither is truly curable.

Speaking of health policy and incentives, Paul Krugman does a good job of parsing the numbers in today's op-ed.  [tm]