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Diabetic
foot problems - inpatient management |
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Draft scope for consultation: 9 February to
5pm on 9 March 2010 (NICE) |
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Fulbright
Diabetes UK Research Award. |
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Applications for this Award opened on 1 February
and close 31 May 2010 (Fulbright Commission) |
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Manual
closed-loop insulin delivery in children and adolescents with
type 1 diabetes |
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Closed-loop systems could reduce risk of nocturnal
hypoglycaemia in children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes
(The Lancet) |
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More
young diabetics in Wales need sight-saving action |
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Surgeons in Wales are having to give sight-saving
treatment to patients in their late teens and 20s struggling to
control their diabetes (BBC, UK) |
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More
than 3,000 emergency hospital admissions a year for children
with diabetes |
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Latest figures reveal that last year there were
more than 3,300 cases of children in England admitted to accident
and emergency departments with .Diabetic ketoacidosis (DiabeteUK) |
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Hemoglobin
A1c is a reliable criterion for diagnosing type 1 diabetes in
childhood and adolescence |
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Childhood type 1 diabetes can be diagnosed and
excluded with high reliability by means of HbA1c testing (Pediatric
Diabetes) |
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New
hope for diabetics |
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Innovative treatment begins clinical trials
at (McGill University Health Centre, Canada) |
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Diabetes
Care Gaps and Disparities in Canada |
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This report examines the extent to which people
with diabetes received recommended care to prevent complications
and the disparities in receiving this care (Canadian Institute
for Health Information) |
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Are
Children the Future of Type 2 Diabetes Prevention? |
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The lifetime risk of type 2 diabetes is now
more than one in three in the general U.S. population, and one
in six adolescents is now obese, suggesting that prevention should
start in childhood (NEJM) |
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Norwegian
University Develops Self Help System To Monitor Diabetes Patients |
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A PhD project at the NST has resulted in the
development of a new self-help system for diabetes, based on a
mobile telephone, blood glucose meter, and step counter (eGov Monitor) |
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A
disparity between physician attitudes and practice regarding
hyperglycemia in pediatric intensive care units in the United
States |
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Considerable disparity exists between physician
beliefs and actual practice habits regarding glycemic control among
pediatric practitioners, with few centers reporting the use of
any consistent standard approach to screening and management (Critical
Care) |
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Hypomagnesaemia
is associated with diabetes: Not pre-diabetes, obesity or the
metabolic syndrome |
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Diabetes is associated with hypomagnesaemia,
but not its pre-cursor states (Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice) |
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Roche
Diabetes Candidate Meets Goals of Five Trials (Update1) |
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Clinical trials show that its experimental diabetes
drug taspoglutide reduced blood sugar levels when compared with
or added to widely prescribed treatments (BusinesWeek) |
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Teplizumab
therapy for type 1 diabetes |
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In Phase I/II randomized control trials, in
patients with new onset T1D, teplizumab slowed the rate of loss
of ß-cell function over 2 years of follow-up (Expert Opinion on Biological Therapy) |
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Drug
Induced Diabetes – Understanding Which CV Drugs are Involved |
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Because overweight and obese individuals are
often at increased risk for diabetes, and commonly treated for
hypertensive and lipid disorders, care should be taken to select
a medication regimen to treat the disorders while sparing the effects
on insulin resistance (Cardiosource) |
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