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Archived News
September 3rd 2008
 
 
  Diabetes UK Annual Professional Conference 2009
  One of the largest healthcare conferences in the UK attracting up to 3000 attendees -11th to 13th March 2009 at the Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre in Glasgow (Diabetes UK)
   
  Call for abstracts for Diabetes UK's Annual Professional Conference
  Submission deadline: 17 October 2008 (Diabetes UK)
   
  Community Diabetes Consultants (CDC) Annual Meeting
  On the 4th October 2008 - Scarman Centre, Univeristy of Warwick (National Diabetes Support Team, UK)
   
  National Diabetes Audit
  The August edition of the NDA service update (NHS, UK)
   
  Prasugrel better than Plavix for diabetics, says analysis
  Eli Lilly and Daiichi Sankyo has presented data from a head-to-head study which shows that its investigational oral antiplatelet drug prasugrel could be more beneficial for diabetics than Sanofi-Aventis/Bristol-Myers Squibb’s blockbuster Plavix (Pharma Times)
   
  Western European Diabetes Market Shows Movement to Exclusive Pill Therapy
  Research Reveals Growing Use of Exclusive Pill Therapy Among Diabetes Population in Six European Countries, Fueled by Heavy Pill Use in Growing Segment of Type 2 Diabetes Patients (Market Watch)
   
  Weighing Up the Burden of Obesity
  A 25-page PDF review by (Dr Foster Research)
   
  Obesity Not a Red Flag for Spotting Diabetes
  Obese people with diabetes are just as likely to go undiagnosed as their slimmer peers with the disease, Harvard Medical School researchers report (American Diabetes Association)
   
  Association Between Parental History of Type 2 Diabetes and Glycemic Control in Urban African Americans
  Parental history did not appear to be associated with better knowledge or perception of adequate glycemic control (Diabetes Care)
   
  Summit sets priorities for fighting diabetes
  Diabetes Australia has called on the federal government to match any new Olympic sports funding with investment in community diabetes and obesity prevention programs (Diabetes Australia)
   
  Gastric emptying and postprandial glucose excursions in adolescents with type 1 diabetes
  Because amylin is co-secreted with insulin from beta cells, patients with type 1 diabetes (T1DM) are deficient in both insulin and amylin. Amylin delays gastric emptying and suppresses glucagon in the postprandial period. Hence, we hypothesized that children with complication-naive T1DM have accelerated gastric emptying in response to a mixed meal because of amylin deficiency (Pediatric Diabetes)
   
  Young Endocrinologists Prize Lectures - call for abstracts
  Applications are now invited from Clinician-in-Training and Scientist-in-Training members to submit an abstract for the Clinical and Basic Science Prize Lectures (Society for Endocrinology)
   
 
  
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