Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Flintshire coma husband speaks of diabetes risk
Mrs Williams with her husband Pete before she fell ill on Christmas Day A husband whose wife suffered severe brain damage after slipping into a diabetic coma is urging greater awareness of the disease. Pete Williams's wife Margaret, 53, of Shotton, Flintshire, suffered a hypoglycaemic attack (low blood sugar) last Christmas Day. "I didn't realise that people with type 2 diabetes could have 'hypos'," said Mr Williams, 50. Dai Williams, Diabetes UK Cymru National Director quoted.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/north_east_wales/10603377.stm
Martyn took his fight for better diabetes treatment to Holyrood - now he wants health boards to offer more people life-changing insulin pumps
STUDENT Martyn Carr has shared his story about his life with diabetes in a new charity booklet aimed at boosting treatment for patients. Last year, the Paisley Daily Express reported how Martyn, 22, took his fight for better treatment all the way to the Scottish Parliament. He was one of the first young patients at Paisley's Royal Alexandra Hospital to be given insulin pump therapy and he wants it to be available to all patients. Jane-Claire Judson, Diabetes UK Scotland National Director, quoted.
http://www.paisleydailyexpress.co.u...e-life-changing-insulin-pumps-87085-26821363/
Health white paper: the details
A radical new vision for the health service has been laid out by ministers effecting all areas of the NHS and healthcare. ?80bn of NHS funding will be handed to GPs to buy care for patients in their area, with primary care trusts and strategic health authorities to be abolished by 2013. It will mean management costs will be cut by almost half and GPs could subcontract out the work to private companies. Foundation Trust hospitals will be allowed greater freedoms to treat more private patients to boost income and more patients with long-term conditions will be given their own health budgets to buy their care.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/7885875/Health-white-paper-the-details.html
Andrew Lansley's ?80bn adventure | Michael White's political briefing
After Michael Gove had stirred MPs with a combative defence of his education policies yesterday, Andrew Lansley (below) popped up to excite them further with top-down plans to end what he called - without evident irony - Labour's "old command and control" regime over the NHS in England. Before the 6 May election the theory was that David Cameron had given Gove the green light to be adventurous and Lansley the amber light to be very cautious in his approach to healthcare, a historic minefield for the Tories. Yet the health secretary's white paper has as much potential to shake up the NHS as anything the schools secretary has done so far.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/jul/13/michael-white-nhs-andrew-lansley
GSK faces US showdown over blockbuster drug
GlaxoSmithKline, the UK's biggest drug maker, faces a showdown over its blockbuster diabetes drug Avandia, which could result in the product being pulled from the market in the US and expose the company to billions of dollars in lawsuits. The drug maker will today present a defence of Avandia's safety in front of a make-or-break scientific panel, which is meeting to discuss whether it increases patients' risk of having a heart attack or a stroke.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/b...s-showdown-over-blockbuster-drug-2025210.html
Low vitamin D levels 'linked to Parkinson's disease'
Sunlight on the skin helps generate vitamin D Having low vitamin D levels may increase a person's risk of developing Parkinson's disease later in life, say Finnish researchers. Their study of 3,000 people, published in Archives of Neurology, found people with the lowest levels of the sunshine vitamin had a three-fold higher risk.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/10601091.stm
Weight food supplements 'do not work'
Health food supplements said to speed up weight loss make absolutely no difference and should be avoided, two new studies have found. The only thing you will lose is your money, said Professor Judith Stern Makers of diet tablets, pills and powders make a number of claims including that they can dissolve fat, tame the appetite and boost metabolism. But two studies from Britain and Germany show that the substances - some derived from cabbages and plant extracts and often on sale at pharmacies - are no better than "fake" dummy pills in helping people slim, they found.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/dietandfitness/7885532/Weight-food-supplements-do-not-work.html
Do doctors give up on you when you get your bus pass? Evidence grows that many over-60s get second class care...
Rosemary Hobbs spent at least two years suffering from undiagnosed ovarian cancer. When it was finally picked up, she had a tumour the size of a cricket ball in her right side. Rosemary, 69, a former nurse, knows she was lucky - after the tumour was removed, she has made a full recovery. But she is aware how easily the cancer could have been missed. 'During my nurse's training, many years ago, we were warned about ovarian cancer. It has few symptoms - except an expanding waistline - and it is easy to miss. But I never thought it would happen to me.'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/a...ss-Evidence-grows-60s-second-class-care-.html
Mrs Williams with her husband Pete before she fell ill on Christmas Day A husband whose wife suffered severe brain damage after slipping into a diabetic coma is urging greater awareness of the disease. Pete Williams's wife Margaret, 53, of Shotton, Flintshire, suffered a hypoglycaemic attack (low blood sugar) last Christmas Day. "I didn't realise that people with type 2 diabetes could have 'hypos'," said Mr Williams, 50. Dai Williams, Diabetes UK Cymru National Director quoted.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/north_east_wales/10603377.stm
Martyn took his fight for better diabetes treatment to Holyrood - now he wants health boards to offer more people life-changing insulin pumps
STUDENT Martyn Carr has shared his story about his life with diabetes in a new charity booklet aimed at boosting treatment for patients. Last year, the Paisley Daily Express reported how Martyn, 22, took his fight for better treatment all the way to the Scottish Parliament. He was one of the first young patients at Paisley's Royal Alexandra Hospital to be given insulin pump therapy and he wants it to be available to all patients. Jane-Claire Judson, Diabetes UK Scotland National Director, quoted.
http://www.paisleydailyexpress.co.u...e-life-changing-insulin-pumps-87085-26821363/
Health white paper: the details
A radical new vision for the health service has been laid out by ministers effecting all areas of the NHS and healthcare. ?80bn of NHS funding will be handed to GPs to buy care for patients in their area, with primary care trusts and strategic health authorities to be abolished by 2013. It will mean management costs will be cut by almost half and GPs could subcontract out the work to private companies. Foundation Trust hospitals will be allowed greater freedoms to treat more private patients to boost income and more patients with long-term conditions will be given their own health budgets to buy their care.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/7885875/Health-white-paper-the-details.html
Andrew Lansley's ?80bn adventure | Michael White's political briefing
After Michael Gove had stirred MPs with a combative defence of his education policies yesterday, Andrew Lansley (below) popped up to excite them further with top-down plans to end what he called - without evident irony - Labour's "old command and control" regime over the NHS in England. Before the 6 May election the theory was that David Cameron had given Gove the green light to be adventurous and Lansley the amber light to be very cautious in his approach to healthcare, a historic minefield for the Tories. Yet the health secretary's white paper has as much potential to shake up the NHS as anything the schools secretary has done so far.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/jul/13/michael-white-nhs-andrew-lansley
GSK faces US showdown over blockbuster drug
GlaxoSmithKline, the UK's biggest drug maker, faces a showdown over its blockbuster diabetes drug Avandia, which could result in the product being pulled from the market in the US and expose the company to billions of dollars in lawsuits. The drug maker will today present a defence of Avandia's safety in front of a make-or-break scientific panel, which is meeting to discuss whether it increases patients' risk of having a heart attack or a stroke.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/b...s-showdown-over-blockbuster-drug-2025210.html
Low vitamin D levels 'linked to Parkinson's disease'
Sunlight on the skin helps generate vitamin D Having low vitamin D levels may increase a person's risk of developing Parkinson's disease later in life, say Finnish researchers. Their study of 3,000 people, published in Archives of Neurology, found people with the lowest levels of the sunshine vitamin had a three-fold higher risk.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/10601091.stm
Weight food supplements 'do not work'
Health food supplements said to speed up weight loss make absolutely no difference and should be avoided, two new studies have found. The only thing you will lose is your money, said Professor Judith Stern Makers of diet tablets, pills and powders make a number of claims including that they can dissolve fat, tame the appetite and boost metabolism. But two studies from Britain and Germany show that the substances - some derived from cabbages and plant extracts and often on sale at pharmacies - are no better than "fake" dummy pills in helping people slim, they found.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/dietandfitness/7885532/Weight-food-supplements-do-not-work.html
Do doctors give up on you when you get your bus pass? Evidence grows that many over-60s get second class care...
Rosemary Hobbs spent at least two years suffering from undiagnosed ovarian cancer. When it was finally picked up, she had a tumour the size of a cricket ball in her right side. Rosemary, 69, a former nurse, knows she was lucky - after the tumour was removed, she has made a full recovery. But she is aware how easily the cancer could have been missed. 'During my nurse's training, many years ago, we were warned about ovarian cancer. It has few symptoms - except an expanding waistline - and it is easy to miss. But I never thought it would happen to me.'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/a...ss-Evidence-grows-60s-second-class-care-.html