tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-192095562024-11-01T10:34:02.657+00:00Diabetes news and views from around the worldElizabeth Snoufferhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14295729929548305840noreply@blogger.comBlogger90125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19209556.post-66114442616923939932010-02-24T07:22:00.013+00:002010-02-24T09:34:04.079+00:00

My head was spinning from the webbed controversy over the type 2 diabetes drug, Avandia, which has been reported to have caused 304 deaths in the third quarter of 2009....once one of the biggest-selling drugs in the world. Driven in part by a multimillion-dollar advertising campaign, sales were $3.2 billion in 2006. But a 2007 study by a Cleveland Clinic cardiologist suggesting that the drug

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Whistler Olympic Park, BC (Feb 20)On Saturday, Kris Freeman took 45th place in the Men’s 30 kilometer pursuit cross-country ski race. Freeman is the first Olympic endurance athlete with Type 1 diabetes. At the 11.25 km mark of the race, Freeman was just 6.2 seconds behind the lead. On the 4th lap of the race his blood sugar crashed and he “stopped and laid on the ground for a moment."

Elizabeth Snoufferhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14295729929548305840noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19209556.post-90611100981417903392010-02-09T23:36:00.005+00:002010-02-09T23:47:55.770+00:00

Check out my piece on a fantastic blog called "A Sweet Life." Here is the link.

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Today, the BBC reported "a shocking number of children being rushed to hospital each year with potentially fatal complications of diabetes" in an article entitled "Better child-diabetes care urged." The complication at issue here is Diabetic Ketoacidosis or DKA (which develops when you have too little insulin in you blood), and it is affecting more children than any other subset of patients

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To: The JDRF Family From: Shannon Allen, International Board of DirectorsAdam Singer, International Board of Chancellors Re: JDRF Program for People with Diabetes in Haiti Date: February 2, 2010In the midst of the tragedy in Haiti is an underlying story that touches the hearts of everyone with a tie to diabetes. From our personal connections to type 1 diabetes - as a parent of a child with type

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Do you suffer from a stiff neck, or frozen shoulder? Is your upper body mobility (reaching for a glass on a top shelf, putting on a jacket, lifting a child up) compromised and causing you to yelp OUCH! Do you also have either Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes? Are you assuming that it could be related? Be careful, because you may be wrongly blaming diabetes as the cause. Conversely, you may be

Elizabeth Snoufferhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14295729929548305840noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19209556.post-23382465885600898942010-01-19T09:35:00.009+00:002010-01-19T13:43:08.554+00:00

It has been well documented that that all human beings share six basic emotions which are characterized by similar facial expressions. We might survey our friends and family to see who knows precisely what the six are and many of us might come very close. In no particular order, they are: joy, sadness, anger, fear, surprise and disgust.AKA, the Big Six.What you may not know is there are other

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What if you survived a major natural disaster, but lost your home, your family? What if the city in which you lived - which happens to be one of the poorest in the world - was one scrambled mess of dead or dying under a rubble of crushed concrete and metal? It is a terrifying scenario. No food, no electricity or fresh water. Street riots, looting and utter chaos everywhere. And emergency

Elizabeth Snoufferhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14295729929548305840noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19209556.post-59238711982019792502010-01-12T13:57:00.007+00:002010-01-12T14:34:05.399+00:00

Dr. Andrew Drexler is one of the most thorough, intelligent, helpful, no-nonsense, (under-recognized), candid, dedicated, (humorous) physicians I have ever met over the course of having diabetes -- that's 35 years!  I still don't think that any of these superlatives do him justice.  Why?   He saved my life.  Twice.  Then he saved another life.  And I know I am in

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Is there a type 1 pandemic? Scientists are saying that there is evidence of a global increase, and Dan Hurley, who has just published Diabetes Rising, uses this as one of the fundamental rationales for writing his book. Even though there is a pandemic for Type 2 diabetes (and for those of you who haven’t realized this, maybe it’s time you stopped watching the E! Network and tuned into the news)

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After all the reports on the Johnson family tragedy, I started to wonder what kinds of support tools might be available in the future for Type 1's, and I chose to focus on the digital market.  After all, technology has proved to enhance diabetes care over the past twenty years.  There is a caveat however.   I am not looking for 1. new devises for the administration of insulin (

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There will be a lot of speculation about Casey Johnson and her death, regardless of what the Los Angeles coroner discovers. Celebrity media outlets will focus on the most tawdry or histrionic aspects of her life, with National news coverage following swiftly behind on details of the funeral and what another celebrity loss represents for us in the 21st century. No one will ever know what

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Daughter of Robert Wood Johnson, IV, great, great grandson of the cofounder of the Johnson & Johnson Health Products manufacturer, owner of the New York Jets and Chairman of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation was found dead in her Los Angeles home on the 4th January. Johnson and her father co-wrote "Managing Your Child's Diabetes" (Mastermind) in 1994. Johnson, 30, was diagnosed with

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What were the biggest d-stories of 2009? Here's a list:d-PoliticsSotomayor NominationHer opponents called her a liberal activist, but there were other issues too. After a few missteps from the media and some callous investigations from the Justice Department and the Senate over her ability to perform with Type 1 diabetes, everyone sighed with relief when the 111th U.S Supreme Court Justice was

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I must admit I am perplexed by the new study findings from the Diabetes Control and Complications Trial/Epidemiology of Diabetes Interventions and Complications (DCCT/EDIC) Research Group which comes on the heels of the DCCT Study. I am perplexed for two reasons.This study set out to understand the LONG-TERM effects of intensive therapy for Type1 DM over a 30 year period versus the older DCCT

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In record time, Team Type 1 finished in 5 days 9 hours and 5 minutes in the eight-rider team division of the Race Across America! Way to go! Congratulations!

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The race is over 3000 miles, and the cyclists move through 14 states and climb more than 100,000 feet. Teams average 350 to over 500 miles per day. The race is 24/7 until you reach the finish line. This year it began in Oceanside, CA and racers will finish in Annapolis, MD. One of the teams is an all TYPE 1 diabetes team (TTI). The New York Times wrote a story about TT1 in their "Health"

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Yesterday the BBC reported:The number of under-fives in Europe with type 1 diabetes is set to double between 2005 and 2020, say experts.The BBC report is here. The original source for the BBC was The Lancet who published an early online edition (yesterday) of a multicentre prospective registration study on the increase in childhood (Type 1) diabetes.   In their summary statement the lancet

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People are worried about Mrs. Sotomayor's diabetes because no one understands diabetes.There I've said it....finally.I may not live in NYC anymore, but I did for awhile even though I have been in exile for many years in Europe, now Asia.  I worked in Manhattan, was married there and my only daughter was born there, so I feel I have a few rights when it comes to making comments about our newly

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Every year I go to have my eyes checked out for glaucoma and retinopathy.  Before I go, I always have a plan for dealing with what I MIGHT feel if they do detect some change for the worse.  Symptoms in Nonproliferative Diabetic Retinopathy (NPDR) are rare, which is why I feel nervous.  NPDR is silently invasive, which is why it frightens people... like me.  NPDR (Non-Proliferative Diabetic

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I desperately want an OmniPod. The tethering of the Medtronic insulin line has lost its appeal; I no longer fancy being perceived as the bionic woman whose wires have popped. But I live in Hong Kong, and access is a problem.  The real irony here is I AM SURE parts for the OmniPod come from China. Ahem. Here is a quote from the Insulet's Corporations Press team, dated March 16, 2009.the

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And you thought it was hard in the West?Cash or credit is important.  Payment plans are available.  The training is a little meagre (translation may be necessary)... lots of miming, smiling and head nodding up and down or across from side to side.  I don't speak enough Cantonese, but get by.It started that way too when I lived in Rome although it was far easier to learn Italian than it will be

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What is the one aspect of diabetes that can be counted on for progression? Population. Numbers.The chart I compiled above (click to enlarge) reflects both the nature of diabetes as a public concern in a handful of countries as well as representing the geographical nature of my life over the past 15 years. Today, I live in Hong Kong, but I also lived in London (as well as other European cities)

Elizabeth Snoufferhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14295729929548305840noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19209556.post-29701347007260179242007-05-04T13:56:00.000+01:002007-05-04T16:20:11.963+01:00

Apologies for not keeping up with my weblog. Thank you to all who have sent me emails asking what I was up to....Today's news isn't about healthcare statistics or the state of diabetes in developing countries or over-populated urban areas. I am not going to talk about research, trends, healthcare or technology. I rarely do it, but I am going to talk about me. Six months ago, I lost my mother.

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Two days ago I contacted the Global offices for Medtronic because I could not find anyone here in the UK to speak to on a Friday evening. Admittedly it wasn't that serious. the clip that attaches the insulin pump to my clothing had snapped off, but other then stuffing the pump in my under garments (ie, very uncomfortable!), I was a little concerned how I was going to manage my daily life! I had

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