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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
York University diabetes camp enrollment doubles (Canada)
Attendance has doubled this year at a sports camp for kids with Type 1 diabetes at York University. The two-week camp, now in its fourth year, has 80 campers between the ages of eight and 16 this year, up from 40 last summer.
http://www.insidetoronto.com/news/l...k-university-diabetes-camp-enrollment-doubles
Uncle Sam, Diet Dictator? (USA)
It’s a fact that Americans have serious health problems caused by their diets. Excessive consumption of fat, sugar, and processed foods is a leading cause of obesity, diabetes, and related illnesses. The question is what to do about it.
http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/health-care/8334-uncle-sam-diet-dictator
Improving diabetes care in younger people (Ireland)
Young adults with type 1 diabetes are at more risk of developing complications from their illness and may be falling away from the healthcare system. Now, new research starting in Dublin is to look at how patient care might be improved for these 23-30 years.
http://www.irishhealth.com/article.html?id=19528
Trainee lawyer: I'll sue over depression drug that gave me diabetes (UK)
A woman who was prescribed a drug to overcome depression today claimed it caused her to develop diabetes.
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/stand...over-depression-drug-that-gave-me-diabetes.do
Rising ailments growing threat (China)
A fast growing but neglected epidemic is afflicting China. Non-communicable diseases (NCDs), such as heart attacks and strokes, cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases, and diabetes, affect individuals and tend to remain a private matter - but the collective impact on society is often severe. These conditions are now the leading causes of premature death, ill health and disability in China, accounting for 69 percent of the total disease burden and more than 80 percent of total annual deaths in the country.
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/usa/epaper/2011-07/26/content_12982742.htm
Attendance has doubled this year at a sports camp for kids with Type 1 diabetes at York University. The two-week camp, now in its fourth year, has 80 campers between the ages of eight and 16 this year, up from 40 last summer.
http://www.insidetoronto.com/news/l...k-university-diabetes-camp-enrollment-doubles
Uncle Sam, Diet Dictator? (USA)
It’s a fact that Americans have serious health problems caused by their diets. Excessive consumption of fat, sugar, and processed foods is a leading cause of obesity, diabetes, and related illnesses. The question is what to do about it.
http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/health-care/8334-uncle-sam-diet-dictator
Improving diabetes care in younger people (Ireland)
Young adults with type 1 diabetes are at more risk of developing complications from their illness and may be falling away from the healthcare system. Now, new research starting in Dublin is to look at how patient care might be improved for these 23-30 years.
http://www.irishhealth.com/article.html?id=19528
Trainee lawyer: I'll sue over depression drug that gave me diabetes (UK)
A woman who was prescribed a drug to overcome depression today claimed it caused her to develop diabetes.
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/stand...over-depression-drug-that-gave-me-diabetes.do
Rising ailments growing threat (China)
A fast growing but neglected epidemic is afflicting China. Non-communicable diseases (NCDs), such as heart attacks and strokes, cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases, and diabetes, affect individuals and tend to remain a private matter - but the collective impact on society is often severe. These conditions are now the leading causes of premature death, ill health and disability in China, accounting for 69 percent of the total disease burden and more than 80 percent of total annual deaths in the country.
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/usa/epaper/2011-07/26/content_12982742.htm
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