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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Council withdraws diabetes medicine (South Africa)
The Medicines Control Council has withdrawn the diabetes medicine Avandia from the market because it contains a substance that might increase the likelihood of a heart attack.
http://www.timeslive.co.za/news/2011/07/06/council-withdraws-diabetes-medicine
Higher 'D' levels may lower diabetes risk (USA)
Higher plasma levels of vitamin D are associated with reduced risk of incident diabetes among people at high risk for the disease, Medscape Medical News reports.
http://www.modernmedicine.com/moder...Article/detail/730078?contextCategoryId=40160
Higher aspirin dose better for diabetes (Canada)
Higher daily doses of aspirin, as much as 325 milligrams daily, may play a role in preventing heart attacks for those with diabetes, Canadian researchers say
http://www.upi.com/Health_News/2011...-dose-better-for-diabetes/UPI-93661310013216/
Indigenous patients rather be sick than return to racist health workers, says study (Australia)
MANY Aboriginal people can feel so scarred from encounters with racist health workers they would rather become sicker than return for treatment, a new report says.
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/br...rkers-says-study/story-e6frf7kf-1226089889035
The Medicines Control Council has withdrawn the diabetes medicine Avandia from the market because it contains a substance that might increase the likelihood of a heart attack.
http://www.timeslive.co.za/news/2011/07/06/council-withdraws-diabetes-medicine
Higher 'D' levels may lower diabetes risk (USA)
Higher plasma levels of vitamin D are associated with reduced risk of incident diabetes among people at high risk for the disease, Medscape Medical News reports.
http://www.modernmedicine.com/moder...Article/detail/730078?contextCategoryId=40160
Higher aspirin dose better for diabetes (Canada)
Higher daily doses of aspirin, as much as 325 milligrams daily, may play a role in preventing heart attacks for those with diabetes, Canadian researchers say
http://www.upi.com/Health_News/2011...-dose-better-for-diabetes/UPI-93661310013216/
Indigenous patients rather be sick than return to racist health workers, says study (Australia)
MANY Aboriginal people can feel so scarred from encounters with racist health workers they would rather become sicker than return for treatment, a new report says.
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/br...rkers-says-study/story-e6frf7kf-1226089889035