The Economist Intelligence Unit
PDGN provided our Secretary General as a panellist to the Economist Intelligence Unit’s Expert Panel Meeting on Vertical Integration in Diabetes. PDGN Co-Chair, John Bowis OBE, was also on the panel. Data was a major part of the discussions and the importance of agreeing data standards a key conclusion. More transparent health care systems were […]
Efpia/IDF
The European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations (Efpia) and the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) invited PDGN to participate in a Diabetes and Covid event – “the potential of the digital transformation in diabetes care” event. With contributions from IDF, academia and Efpia, the conclusions were the need for accurate up to the minute data […]
PDGN News
Event Reports In recent weeks PDGN has taken part in several on-line events. New Statesman PDGN was invited to participate in a global policy forum on the remaking of the world after coronavirus, organised by the New Statesman magazine. With contributions from the EU Commission, WTO, International Rescue, Parliamentarians and Mayors from the US, UK […]
Research Corner
Obesity Risks The study suggests there is a higher risk of developing type 2 diabetes by at least 6 times. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/04/200415185837.htm Studies into Diabetes Genes In the largest non-European diabetes genetics study to date that involved 433,540 East Asian individuals from China, Hong Kong, Japan, the Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan and USA, an international team of […]
Tech News
Help from AI Artificial Intelligence ‘could help identify future diabetes patients’. Scientists have developed a new technology that uses artificial intelligence to predict whether a patient will develop diabetes. The preliminary research, which is yet to be published, applies a method known as machine learning to assess the risk of a person developing the lifelong […]
Scotland: Covid and Diabetes
In the Scottish Parliament, David Stewart MSP made use of his position to ask questions about the correlation between deaths from Covid 19 and people with diabetes. Joe FitzPatrick (SNP), the Minister for Public Health’s reply was: “We know that this is a worrying time for people who live with diabetes. Their safety and the […]
Pacific Islands: Colonialization & Health
An interesting opinion piece about the health consequences of colonialization and how the introduction of foreign diets, illnesses, and economic practices were imposed on the islanders, disrupting native lifestyles, traditions, and even languages. https://instant.com.pk/marshall-islands/142088
Australia: Advocacy Success
CAPTION: PDGN Patron, Hon. Judi Moylan AO (glasses, centre left) with Professor Liz Davis on her immediate left and Professor Greg Johnson on the far left with participants at the launch of the Diabetes in Schools Program at St Peter’s Primary School Western Australia. Advocacy action by Parliamentarians and patient groups in Australia has brought […]
USA: Childhood Obesity
Disappointment has been expressed about the continuing upward trend in childhood obesity in the US despite the programmes that have tried to make an impact. https://abcnews.go.com/Lifestyle/wireSto ry/us-kids-obese-latest-data-70585816 Targeting Better news from the San Francisco work based prevention programme targeted on people considered at high risk for developing type 2 diabetes, and who had a Body Mass Index […]
World News: Asia
Type 2 Prevalence South Asians have a high prevalence of type 2 diabetes, even at a lower Body Mass Index (BMI). This review sets out an hypothesis on the reasons for this. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/340319911_Why_are_South_Asians_prone_to_type_2_diabetes_A_hypothesis_based_on_underexplored_pathways
Health Care Disparity Evidence Grows
Appalling disparities in health care have been revealed in several recent studies that the Covid 19 pandemic has magnified. The ‘Center for American Progress (CAP)’ has pulled together research from across the USA showing that it is home to stark and persistent racial disparities in health coverage, chronic health conditions, mental health, and mortality. The […]
When Two Pandemics Collide
Evidence is growing that people with an underlying condition of diabetes are the most at risk of death from Covid 19 and that 1 in 10 patients die within a week. As the virus has made its way around the world the amount of data and number of studies have grown. They show the mortality […]