The word 'diabetics' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to talk about people who have diabetes, such as "Diabetics need to monitor their blood sugar levels carefully."
It has the highest rate of diabetes among large countries, with 6.5m diabetics in a population of 100m.
Until the discovery of insulin, in the 1920s, this form of diabetes was a death sentence.In principle, it might be possible for diabetics to take their insulin by mouth, as the hormone can be absorbed into the body through the walls of the small intestine.
They're able to infer human intentions by reading body language and odour, to the extent that they can smell oncoming seizures in epileptics and diabetics.
But it's better than telling cancer patients and diabetics that it's all their fault.(Photo credit: AFP).
The technique found maternal cells in about half the diabetics' samples, but in only about one-third of the healthy siblings' samples and in less than one-fifth of those from the unrelated volunteers.
There will be plenty to do for the extra doctors: by 2030 it expects the number of diabetics in China to rise to 130m, up nearly 50% from 2011.Such training and screening programmes are not confined to China.
Nevertheless, TheraSense hopes that one day it might be able to use biofuel cells for such things as powering miniature monitors for diabetics.
And for those diabetics who find it hard either to diet or to exercise, there is an alternative, if drastic, strategy.
It was originally licensed for diabetics, but family doctors began to prescribe it in the mid-1990s an appetite-suppressantant.
He then wangled his way into the Hayden Planetarium in New York and convinced the director to buy several of the machines for $2,000 each.When his elder brother, a medical student, complained of the difficulties in administering insulin to diabetics, Mr Kamen dropped out of college and created the world's first wearable drug-infusion pump.
On one estimate, you might need eggs from 80m women just to treat American diabetics alone.
