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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Progress on food industry health deal 'slow'
There has been "inadequate" progress in getting the food industry to adopt healthier practices, campaigners say. An investigation by the consumer group Which? found many of the major firms had not signed up to the government's responsibility deal. The voluntary initiative was launched a year ago to encourage moves such as reducing salt and trans-fats in food, and improving information.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-17369362
What more can universities do to support students with long-term illnesses?
The pressure of making friends, managing your finances and starting a degree course are enough to give any new student the jitters. But imagine factoring in the additional stress of having a long-term illness into your new life on campus. For me it's diabetes, an invisible foe with a tendency to put in sudden and untimely appearances. I try not to go anywhere without my injection kit and something sugary, but it's impossible not to get caught out at some point. Once I found myself asking the entire computer lab if anyone had any sweets. "It's a medical emergency," I said, somewhat melodramatically. Thankfully, one person obliged.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2012/mar/15/diabetes-university-student-life?newsfeed=true
Blood test has potential to detect undiagnosed inherited diabetes cases
http://www.gponline.com/News/articl...-detect-undiagnosed-inherited-diabetes-cases/
Virgin debate looks at digi-tv
Virgin Media Business may explore the possibility of providing healthcare and therapeutic advice through set-top boxes....... The growing popularity of an iPhone app produced by Diabetes UK was also discussed in detail, with participants suggesting it would be possible to provide access to such applications through a set-top box via the ‘red-button’.
http://www.ehi.co.uk/news/mobile/7612/virgin-debate-looks-at-digi-tv
Three-fold variation in numbers of children going to A&E
Confusion over out of hours GP services and high rates of deprivation are thought to be the reason for the wide variation, the report said. The Child Health Atlas, released by the Department of Health, investigated variation in care around the country across more than 20 different indicators including admission to hospital for asthma, immunisation rates and deaths.
FYI: DUK released a statement to the media in response to diabetes figures, but this has not been used so far. The atlas shows a 2.6-fold variation among PCTs in the percentage of children with Type 1 diabetes admitted to hospital for diabetic ketoacidosis. The atlas also reveals the percentage of children aged 0–15 years with diabetes whose most recent HbA1c measurement was 10% or less, ranged from 41.7% to 100.0% (a 2.4-fold variation).
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/h...on-in-numbers-of-children-going-to-AandE.html
Study links womb environment to childhood obesity
New evidence has linked the environment in the womb with increased body weight in later life. Scientists found changes around the DNA at birth which may result from a mother's diet or exposure to pollution or stress. They then linked these changes to a higher Body Mass Index (BMI) in children aged about nine years of age.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-17234033
Breakthrough advanced skin cancer pill available in Britain
Oncologists say vemurafenib, marketed by drugs firm Roche as Zelboraf, will transform the treatment of advanced malignant melanoma, after decades without a major medical advance. One trial showed the twice-daily pill could increase survival, among those whose skin cancer had spread to other organs, by as much as eight to 10 months. But doctors say equally exciting is that it makes patients feel so much better, reducing pain and giving them back their energy.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/h...ed-skin-cancer-pill-available-in-Britain.html
Calls to make Scotland smoke-free by 2035
The British Medical Association is marking No Smoking Day by calling on smokers to quit and help ensure a smoke-free Scotland for future generations. The BMA believes that the UK could be tobacco free by 2035. Deputy chairman Dr Sally Winning said: "Every day doctors witness the death and despair caused by smoking. Tobacco is highly addictive and people need support to give up.
http://news.stv.tv/scotland/300561-call-to-make-scotland-smoke-free-by-2035/
There has been "inadequate" progress in getting the food industry to adopt healthier practices, campaigners say. An investigation by the consumer group Which? found many of the major firms had not signed up to the government's responsibility deal. The voluntary initiative was launched a year ago to encourage moves such as reducing salt and trans-fats in food, and improving information.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-17369362
What more can universities do to support students with long-term illnesses?
The pressure of making friends, managing your finances and starting a degree course are enough to give any new student the jitters. But imagine factoring in the additional stress of having a long-term illness into your new life on campus. For me it's diabetes, an invisible foe with a tendency to put in sudden and untimely appearances. I try not to go anywhere without my injection kit and something sugary, but it's impossible not to get caught out at some point. Once I found myself asking the entire computer lab if anyone had any sweets. "It's a medical emergency," I said, somewhat melodramatically. Thankfully, one person obliged.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2012/mar/15/diabetes-university-student-life?newsfeed=true
Blood test has potential to detect undiagnosed inherited diabetes cases
http://www.gponline.com/News/articl...-detect-undiagnosed-inherited-diabetes-cases/
Virgin debate looks at digi-tv
Virgin Media Business may explore the possibility of providing healthcare and therapeutic advice through set-top boxes....... The growing popularity of an iPhone app produced by Diabetes UK was also discussed in detail, with participants suggesting it would be possible to provide access to such applications through a set-top box via the ‘red-button’.
http://www.ehi.co.uk/news/mobile/7612/virgin-debate-looks-at-digi-tv
Three-fold variation in numbers of children going to A&E
Confusion over out of hours GP services and high rates of deprivation are thought to be the reason for the wide variation, the report said. The Child Health Atlas, released by the Department of Health, investigated variation in care around the country across more than 20 different indicators including admission to hospital for asthma, immunisation rates and deaths.
FYI: DUK released a statement to the media in response to diabetes figures, but this has not been used so far. The atlas shows a 2.6-fold variation among PCTs in the percentage of children with Type 1 diabetes admitted to hospital for diabetic ketoacidosis. The atlas also reveals the percentage of children aged 0–15 years with diabetes whose most recent HbA1c measurement was 10% or less, ranged from 41.7% to 100.0% (a 2.4-fold variation).
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/h...on-in-numbers-of-children-going-to-AandE.html
Study links womb environment to childhood obesity
New evidence has linked the environment in the womb with increased body weight in later life. Scientists found changes around the DNA at birth which may result from a mother's diet or exposure to pollution or stress. They then linked these changes to a higher Body Mass Index (BMI) in children aged about nine years of age.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-17234033
Breakthrough advanced skin cancer pill available in Britain
Oncologists say vemurafenib, marketed by drugs firm Roche as Zelboraf, will transform the treatment of advanced malignant melanoma, after decades without a major medical advance. One trial showed the twice-daily pill could increase survival, among those whose skin cancer had spread to other organs, by as much as eight to 10 months. But doctors say equally exciting is that it makes patients feel so much better, reducing pain and giving them back their energy.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/h...ed-skin-cancer-pill-available-in-Britain.html
Calls to make Scotland smoke-free by 2035
The British Medical Association is marking No Smoking Day by calling on smokers to quit and help ensure a smoke-free Scotland for future generations. The BMA believes that the UK could be tobacco free by 2035. Deputy chairman Dr Sally Winning said: "Every day doctors witness the death and despair caused by smoking. Tobacco is highly addictive and people need support to give up.
http://news.stv.tv/scotland/300561-call-to-make-scotland-smoke-free-by-2035/
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