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Progress
made in NHS Diabetes care |
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Diabetes care in the NHS is improving and focussing
more on prevention, according to a report published by the Department
of Health today (DoH, UK) |
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Five
years on: delivering the diabetes national service framework |
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This report highlights progress over the first
five years of the NSF Delivery Strategy; marking the half-way point
of the implementation period. 729K PDF (DoH, UK) |
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Diabetes
report praises GPs for improving monitoring |
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GP practices have helped improve diabetes care
in the NHS and more people are being routinely monitored for indicators
of complications, according to a report published by the Department
of Health (Management in Practice, UK) |
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Government
report glosses over diabetes care failings |
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This report paints too rosy a picture of the
current standard of diabetes care (Diabetes UK) |
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Diabetes
strategy worthless without obesity focus - Lamb |
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"But what is most striking about
the report is what it doesn’t say. Almost no mention is made of the big risk that, unless we effectively
tackle obesity, the number of people suffering with diabetes will
almost certainly increase (Liberal Democrat Shadow Health Secretary,
Norman Lamb, UK) |
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Arsenic
Exposure and Prevalence of Type 2 Diabetes in US Adults |
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After adjustment for biomarkers of seafood intake,
total urine arsenic was associated with increased prevalence of
type 2 diabetes (JAMA) |
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Medicine
Awarded Largest One-Time Grant by NIH to Study Community-Based
Diabetes Prevention |
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The Mercer School of Medicine, which last year
celebrated its 25th anniversary, has been awarded the largest one-time
grant in the history of the school. The National Institutes of
Health will provide the Department of Family Medicine at the School
of Medicine with $3.1 million to conduct a five-year study of the
Church-Based Diabetes Prevention and Translation program (Mercer
School of Medicine, USA) |
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Metformin:
a multitasking medication |
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The field of therapeutics is strewn with descriptors
such as panacea, pleiotropic and holistic, so why not multitasking
for metformin? (Diabetes and Vascular Disease Research) |
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Metformin
therapy and clinical uses |
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As many of its actions go beyond glucose lowering,
emerging evidence indicates potential benefits in other insulin-resistant
states and possibly tumour suppression (Diabetes and Vascular Disease
Research) |
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Diabetes
drug users urged to see doctor |
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Pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline (GSK)
says all patients need to see their doctor as soon as possible
after major changes were made to the drugs' guidelines for use
(News.com, Australia) |
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Eye
health in Australia |
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A hospital perspective. 35-page PDF (AIHW, Australia) |
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Reproducibility
of the Oral Glucose Tolerance Test in Overweight Children |
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Our results show poor reproducibility of the
OGTT in obese youth, in particular for the 2 hour plasma glucose
(Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism) |
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Four
decades of uncertainty |
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Landmark trials in glycaemic control and cardiovascular
outcome in type 2 diabetes (Diabetes and Vascular Disease Research) |
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Endurance
Exercise as a Countermeasure for Aging |
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The results demonstrate that reduced insulin
sensitivity is likely related to changes in adiposity and physical
inactivity rather than an inevitable consequence of aging (Diabetes) |
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