Despite the image of diabetes as an affliction of fat Western people, eighty per cent of deaths from the disease are in low- and middle-income countries.
Alice Lighton
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Deputy editor After devouring books through childhood, Alice has spent the last four years doing a physics degree at Oxford. She has worked at Wired and Technology World magazines, and was deputy editor of The Oxford Student. She loves anything physics-related, but is particularly interested in superconductors and weird magnets. She also writes a blog on tropical diseases. As well as writing about science, talking about science, and having arguments about statistics, she likes cats and single-speed bicycles. Email Alice www.switchthelighton.wordpress.com @alicelighton |  |
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