Why Do South Asians Have Such High Rates Of Heart Disease
Research in the States is beginning to uncover why rates of heart disease are so high in this group. For the last seven years, a team of researchers at the University of California, San Francisco and Northwestern University has followed more than 900 South Asians in Chicago and the Bay Area. Their ongoing study, known […]
Tech Access In UK “Not Fit For Purpose”
The Association of British Clinical Diabetologists (ABCD) has published a document on access to new technologies for people with diabetes that concludes the current system for reviewing and launching new technology within a health economy is not fit for purpose. The publication, Increasing the Uptake of New Technologies in Diabetes: Recommended Actions, summarises the findings […]
PDGN News
Thanks to support from a sponsor a comprehensive review of PDGN is currently being undertaken with a likely completion date at the end of May. The review will guide PDGN’s future priorities and activities. If you have been contacted to take part, thank you for assisting this important project that is aimed to help deliver […]
Important Victory for CGM Drivers
Driving regulations for people with diabetes in the UK require those about to go behind the wheel to check their glucose levels with a finger prick blood reading no more than two hours before driving and then again on a break after every two hours of driving. Failure to do can invalidate their compulsory car […]
Diabetes Link to Mental Illness
There are increasing numbers of reports and studies into the links between diabetes and mental illness being published. For too long mental illness has been seen as a stigma but research has confirmed a clear connection between such illness and both Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes across all age groups. Diagnosis of diabetes can […]
Importance of Understanding Diabetes Type
Little annoys people with diabetes more than references to one type of diabetes being confused with another. Grainne Flynne’s article is a good insight into the thinking of someone with the condition and the need not to discriminate between type one and type two. All types of diabetes are chronic, life threatening conditions and none […]
NEWS FROM AROUND THE GLOBE
Pakistan – Concerns that Pakistan’s health Care system might not be able to cope with the global epidemic of diabetes have been expressed by Dr Azok Fazal Pechuho, the country’s health minister. She says Pakistan should not only focus efforts on the prevention of diabetes, but also develop science based natural remedies that can help […]
Aussie Parties in a Bidding War
In February the Australian Federal Government announced that scientists searching for the elusive cure for type 1 diabetes will get an extra $54.5 million in funding to help the more than 120,000 children and adults in the country with the chronic condition. Almost immediately the opposition Labor Party pledged to give $ 50 million to […]
Welcome Tasmania
Congratulations to PDGN President Guy Barnett MP on helping bring a new cross-party group to life, this time in the Tasmanian Parliament. The group was set up last year and launched on the lawns of Parliament House in Hobart with plans to have a number of events to get the message of Diabetes out into […]
News on Sugar Taxes
In our last newsletter we reported on PDGN Vice-President Dr Mustafa Brahimi’s successful campaign to persuade the Moroccan Parliament to adopt a sugar tax. The issue is gaining ground around the world but support is by no means universal. In South East Asia the question is being asked whether a sugar tax will solve the […]
Lilly to Bring Rocketing Insulin Costs Down to Earth
US insulin manufacturer Eli Lilly has become the first to respond to the growing pressure from patients to cut the cost of insulin. The company announced in March that it would offer a cheaper version of its top selling insulin Humalog in the USA. The decision follows a decision by Congress to investigate the three […]
Global Health Inequalities Persist
The OECD together with the European Commission has published a report showing the persistence of health inequalities and the prevalence of obesity that is continuing to increase across the globe. The report contains nutrition profiles, which capture the status of nutrition at country, regional and global levels. The country profiles aggregate the very latest data […]