Are you a reporter seeking an interview with Dan Hurley? Or do you want to contact Dan directly? |
Dan's previous book was featured in a two-part series on the CBS Evening News. It received Booklist's Editors' Choice 2006 award. |
Find out about Dan's secret identity as the 60-Second Novelist. Crazy but true! . |
For his latest book, Dan spent over a year traveling the country, interviewing hundred of researchers, physicians and people with diabetes, and reviewing thousands of studies. The result, according to a starred review in Library Journal, is "a fascinating and hope-filled read." He appeared on National Public Radio's Talk of the Nation on January 5. (Click here to listen!) A work of investigative journalism rather than self-help happy talk, Diabetes Rising examines why both types of the disease are now 10 to 20 times more common than a hundred years ago, despite all the "breakthroughs" and medications, and innovative new strategies aimed at turning the tide. He visited Boston's wealthiest suburbs, where frightening clusters of type 1 diabetes have parents up in arms, as well as West Virginia's impoverished coal-mining country, with the highest rate of type 2 in the nation. Dan looks past the well-known obesity connection to examine five provocative, little-known hypotheses seeking to explain the relentless rise. And he highlights breakthroughs in preventing, curing or significantly improving treatment of the disease: from startling new developments in the quest for an artificial pancreas, to simple steps every family can take. |
Dan Hurley has been a medical journalist and author for more than 20 years. He has written nearly two dozen articles for The New York Times, on topics ranging from the so-called science of sarcasm, to a profile of the late psychologist Albert Ellis, and his experience testing a continous glucose monitor for his type 1 diabetes. (He developed the disease in 1975, during his first semester at college.) He has also written for Men's Health and for Psychology Today, where his article on the violent mentally ill won the American Society of Journalists and Authors award for investigative journalism in 1995. Dan also writes for physicians' newspapers, including Neurology Today, the official newspaper of the American Academy of Neurology. |
"Dan Hurley takes the same approach to diabetes that Ronald Reagan took on the Cold War. Not willing to live with the enemy, he wants to kill it in its crib." --Chris Matthews, Host of "Hardball," MSNBC |
Dan Hurley Medical journalist and author of Diabetes Rising: How a Rare Disease Became a Modern Pandemic, And What To Do About It |
Dan Hurley has been a medical journalist and author for more than 20 years. He has written nearly two dozen articles for The New York Times, on topics ranging from the so-called science of sarcasm, to a profile of the late psychologist Albert Ellis, and his experience testing a continous glucose monitor for his type 1 diabetes. (He developed the disease in 1975, during his first semester at college.) He has also written for Men's Health and for Psychology Today, where his article on the violent mentally ill won the American Society of Journalists and Authors award for investigative journalism in 1995. Dan also writes for physicians' newspapers, including Neurology Today, the official newspaper of the American Academy of Neurology. |
For his latest book, Dan spent over a year traveling the country, interviewing hundred of researchers, physicians and people with diabetes, and reviewing thousands of studies. The result, according to a starred review in Library Journal, is "a fascinating and hope-filled read." He appeared on National Public Radio's Talk of the Nation on January 5. (Click here to listen!) A work of investigative journalism rather than self-help happy talk, Diabetes Rising examines why both types of the disease are now 10 to 20 times more common than a hundred years ago, despite all the "breakthroughs" and medications, and innovative new strategies aimed at turning the tide. He visited Boston's wealthiest suburbs, where frightening clusters of type 1 diabetes have parents up in arms, as well as West Virginia's impoverished coal-mining country, with the highest rate of type 2 in the nation. Dan looks past the well-known obesity connection to examine five provocative, little-known hypotheses seeking to explain the relentless rise. And he highlights breakthroughs in preventing, curing or significantly improving treatment of the disease: from startling new developments in the quest for an artificial pancreas, to simple steps every family can take. |
Find out about Dan's secret identity as the 60-Second Novelist. Crazy but true! . |
Dan's previous book was featured in a two-part series on the CBS Evening News. It received Booklist's Editors' Choice 2006 award. |
Are you a reporter seeking an interview with Dan Hurley? Or do you want to contact Dan directly? |
