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Jake will never be a teen rebel: A mother talks about her teenage son's battle with diabetes
Discipline, planning, restraint - managing diabetes and being a teenager are uneasy bedfellows, says Rose Morgan, whose teenage son Jake was diagnosed with the illness last year. There are pinpoints of time, probably not so many of them, when you know your life has changed for ever: Friday 16 October 2009, at 10.30am, was one of those moments for me. We sat in the GP?s surgery ? me, my husband and our 14-year-old son Jake, who, in just four days, had transformed from his chatty, laid-back self into a skinny, exhausted shadow. He?d had flu, but wasn?t getting better. That morning he seemed ill in a different way; he was weak and sleepy, and had started being sick after eating or drinking. I think, deep down, I knew something was very wrong because I suggested to my husband that he came to the surgery too. Diabetes UK mentioned.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/you...talks-teenage-son-Jake-s-battle-diabetes.html
Diabetes costs 'out of control'
Insulin is just one of many drugs available for diabetes control The NHS is spending too much on diabetes drugs say researchers, who found the medicines account for 7% of the UK prescribing budget. A big rise in the number of people with type 2 diabetes in recent years does not fully explain the spiralling costs, say Cardiff University researchers. Dr Niti Pall, A spokesperson for Diabetes UK, quoted.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-10740224
Returning drugs giant GSK to good health
With a restructuring behind him and his long-term strategy in effect, GSK chief Andrew Witty is bracing for a 'generics hurricane'. Andrew Witty The class was by invitation only. The criterion was running a company with more than $2bn (?1.3bn) in sales. The location was Harvard. For Andrew Witty, it was where the plan was hatched. Attending "CEO school" before taking over at the helm of GlaxoSmithKline in May 2008, Witty got busy plotting the drug company's future.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/...Returning-drugs-giant-GSK-to-good-health.html
Don't knock our efforts to make the nation healthy
We're looking ahead to a future where people are encouraged and assisted to make informed decisions about their lifestyle and health. Change4Life is only just beginning. To ensure its success Change4Life must become less a government campaign, and more a social movement. We're not "going soft" on business. What we are doing is pursuing a new approach that will make Change4Life go further and faster, by harnessing the power of some of our best-known companies. We're creating a new "responsibility deal" with industry that is not built on regulation, but on social responsibility. We're paving the way for a more effective, more sustainable and more acceptable future health of our nation.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/theobserver/2010/jul/25/public-health-lansley-campaign
NHS missing out on cancer drug payments
Cost-sharing schemes for expensive new drugs are becoming increasingly common The NHS may be missing out on millions of pounds of reimbursement for cancer drugs because of onerous paperwork, say researchers. Schemes to share the cost of expensive new drugs with pharmaceutical companies are becoming increasingly common.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-10740225
Nurses 'reminded of duties'
Nurses are being reminded that it is part of their job to feed patients and check if they have bed sores, it has been reported. Dr Peter Carter, General Secretary and Chief Executive of the RCN said there was an 'insidious erosion of staffing' happening in the NHS and warned that it would affect patient care. Photo: ALAMY A report by the National Health Service has found that millions of patients suffer falls or malnutrition during their stay in hospital, according to the Daily Mail. It discovered that 70 per cent of patients with malnutrition are never recognised by nurses as having the condition, ten per cent experience bed sores, and there are more than 200,000 falls a year on NHS grounds.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/7909821/Nurses-reminded-of-duties.html
Discipline, planning, restraint - managing diabetes and being a teenager are uneasy bedfellows, says Rose Morgan, whose teenage son Jake was diagnosed with the illness last year. There are pinpoints of time, probably not so many of them, when you know your life has changed for ever: Friday 16 October 2009, at 10.30am, was one of those moments for me. We sat in the GP?s surgery ? me, my husband and our 14-year-old son Jake, who, in just four days, had transformed from his chatty, laid-back self into a skinny, exhausted shadow. He?d had flu, but wasn?t getting better. That morning he seemed ill in a different way; he was weak and sleepy, and had started being sick after eating or drinking. I think, deep down, I knew something was very wrong because I suggested to my husband that he came to the surgery too. Diabetes UK mentioned.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/you...talks-teenage-son-Jake-s-battle-diabetes.html
Diabetes costs 'out of control'
Insulin is just one of many drugs available for diabetes control The NHS is spending too much on diabetes drugs say researchers, who found the medicines account for 7% of the UK prescribing budget. A big rise in the number of people with type 2 diabetes in recent years does not fully explain the spiralling costs, say Cardiff University researchers. Dr Niti Pall, A spokesperson for Diabetes UK, quoted.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-10740224
Returning drugs giant GSK to good health
With a restructuring behind him and his long-term strategy in effect, GSK chief Andrew Witty is bracing for a 'generics hurricane'. Andrew Witty The class was by invitation only. The criterion was running a company with more than $2bn (?1.3bn) in sales. The location was Harvard. For Andrew Witty, it was where the plan was hatched. Attending "CEO school" before taking over at the helm of GlaxoSmithKline in May 2008, Witty got busy plotting the drug company's future.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/...Returning-drugs-giant-GSK-to-good-health.html
Don't knock our efforts to make the nation healthy
We're looking ahead to a future where people are encouraged and assisted to make informed decisions about their lifestyle and health. Change4Life is only just beginning. To ensure its success Change4Life must become less a government campaign, and more a social movement. We're not "going soft" on business. What we are doing is pursuing a new approach that will make Change4Life go further and faster, by harnessing the power of some of our best-known companies. We're creating a new "responsibility deal" with industry that is not built on regulation, but on social responsibility. We're paving the way for a more effective, more sustainable and more acceptable future health of our nation.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/theobserver/2010/jul/25/public-health-lansley-campaign
NHS missing out on cancer drug payments
Cost-sharing schemes for expensive new drugs are becoming increasingly common The NHS may be missing out on millions of pounds of reimbursement for cancer drugs because of onerous paperwork, say researchers. Schemes to share the cost of expensive new drugs with pharmaceutical companies are becoming increasingly common.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-10740225
Nurses 'reminded of duties'
Nurses are being reminded that it is part of their job to feed patients and check if they have bed sores, it has been reported. Dr Peter Carter, General Secretary and Chief Executive of the RCN said there was an 'insidious erosion of staffing' happening in the NHS and warned that it would affect patient care. Photo: ALAMY A report by the National Health Service has found that millions of patients suffer falls or malnutrition during their stay in hospital, according to the Daily Mail. It discovered that 70 per cent of patients with malnutrition are never recognised by nurses as having the condition, ten per cent experience bed sores, and there are more than 200,000 falls a year on NHS grounds.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/7909821/Nurses-reminded-of-duties.html