mydiabetes.com

The community for patients, friends, families and healthcare professionals

Welcome to mydiabetes.com. An online support and community service for patients,families,friends and healthcare professionals. Please do join us.

David's Blog – March 2009 Archive (2)

Sunday 29th March - Newsletter

Sunday 29 March

Manchester.

Good Morning!

www.mydiabetes.com is for patients, family members, friends and healthcare professionals and is about providing support and encouragement to each other along the diabetes journey. It’s also about sharing our good and sometimes not so good news with each other.

The clocks have sprung forward and it’s a beautiful sunny day here in Manchester. The daffodils are in bloom and the… Continue

Added by David on March 29, 2009 at 11:52 — No Comments

Virus triggers type 1 diabetes in children - Report from Britain

Today the BBC reported

A common virus may be the trigger for the development of many cases of diabetes, particularly in children, UK researchers have reported.

Signs of enteroviruses were found in pancreatic tissue from 60% of children with type 1 diabetes, but in hardly any children without the disease.

They also found that 40% of adults with type 2 diabetes had signs of the infection in insulin-producing cells.

The study published in Diabetologia… Continue

Added by David on March 5, 2009 at 19:30 — No Comments