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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
A diabetic woman who has been living with the illness for almost 50 years is backing calls for more research.
Jean Postlethwaite, 70, of Little Corby, near Carlisle, developed type one diabetes when she was 21 ? and was told there would probably be a cure within 10 years.
But almost 50 years on, the great grandmother is still waiting for a breakthrough that will stop her needing daily insulin injections.
She is now backing a Carlisle family?s campaign for more research into the life-threatening condition.
The parents of Django Bennett-Clarke, a four-year-old boy from Armathwaite who was recently diagnosed with diabetes, are going to London to lobby MPs for more investment in key research.
http://www.newsandstar.co.uk/news/i...or-a-diabetes-cure-1.945483?referrerPath=news
Jean Postlethwaite, 70, of Little Corby, near Carlisle, developed type one diabetes when she was 21 ? and was told there would probably be a cure within 10 years.
But almost 50 years on, the great grandmother is still waiting for a breakthrough that will stop her needing daily insulin injections.
She is now backing a Carlisle family?s campaign for more research into the life-threatening condition.
The parents of Django Bennett-Clarke, a four-year-old boy from Armathwaite who was recently diagnosed with diabetes, are going to London to lobby MPs for more investment in key research.
http://www.newsandstar.co.uk/news/i...or-a-diabetes-cure-1.945483?referrerPath=news
