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Millions
Mark World Diabetes Day |
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Diabetes activists worldwide organize events
to draw attention to growing pandemic with the focus on diabetes
in children and adolescents (World Diabetes Day) |
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Diabetes
prevalence 2008 |
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As part of QOF, general practices will register
the number of people with diabetes and therefore prevalence figures
are available (Diabetes UK) |
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Juvenation |
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A New Social Network from the (JDRF) |
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Health
of up to 84% of children with diabetes at risk at schools in
England |
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Inequalities in support for children with diabetes
in England’s primary schools could be putting the health of up to 84 per cent (an estimated
6,500 children) of 5- to 11-year-olds with the condition at risk,
according to a report (Diabetes UK) |
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Medical
Conditions at School, |
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The website for information to help schools
and school healthcare professionals support all pupils with medical
conditions (Medical Conditions at School) |
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New
study highlights potential for cost effective NHS policy |
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Screening people who are at risk of developing
diabetes could be a cost-effective health policy and improve the
lives of patients (University of Leicester, UK) |
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Automated
Telephone Self-Management Support May Be Cost-Effective for Diabetes |
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Automated telephone self-management (ATSM) support
with nurse care management is cost-effective among patients with
diabetes, according to the results of a study reported in the November/December
issue of the Annals of Family Medicine (Medscape) |
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New
patent for the treatment of diabetes complication exclusively
licensed by Diamyd |
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Approximately 35 to 50 percent of all men with
diabetes suffer from erectile dysfunction. PDF (Diamyd Medical) |
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No
clinical benefit seen with early insulin therapy in infants with
very low birth weight |
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Early insulin therapy decreased hyperglycemia
but increased hypoglycemia in infants with very low birth weight
(Endocrine Today) |
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Teaching
Tools Foster Science and Diabetes Education in Native American
Schools |
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Schools across the country now have free access
to an innovative set of teaching tools designed to increase the
understanding of science, health, and diabetes among American Indian
and Alaska Native students (NIH News) |
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World
Diabetes Day 14 November - bringing diabetes to light |
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Parliament House and the National Library in
Canberra, along with the Southern Star in Melbourne are joining
Niagara Falls, the Pyramids of Egypt and the London Eye in turning
on the blue lights and turning attention to the growing epidemic
of diabetes (Australian Healthcare and Hospitals Association) |
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NZ
falls behind in Specialist Diabetes Services |
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Resources for managing diabetes have become
seriously inadequate compared to other countries, impacting adversely
on patient care, according to the Executive of the New Zealand
Society for the Study of Diabetes (Scoop, New Zealand) |
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Study
to Track How People React to Disease-Risk Data |
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A 20-year study to be launched on Thursday will
seek to answer a key question about people who learn their genetic
risk levels for developing medical conditions like diabetes, cancer
or Alzheimer's disease (Wall Street Journal, USA) |
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