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Diabetes Notes

Archive for August 2006

August 29th, 2006

Like Chuck E. Cheese, with insulin

For the eleventh summer, diabetic children had a place to spend the summer feeling like normal kids. The Circle of Life Camp at Snyders Lakne, New York, concluded its activities this past week, offering a week of activities focusing on education and support for juvenile diabetics.
Founded in 1996 by Dr. Alicia McAuliffe-Fogarty, at the […]

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August 23rd, 2006

Vandross’s mother promotes diabetes awareness

Mary Ida Vandross, the 82 year-old mother of the late R&B sensation Luther Vandross, is urging people to get checked for diabetes, the illness that claimed her son’s life last year at the age of 54.
Vandross said that her son’s death followed that of his father, two of her other children and one grandchild from […]

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August 20th, 2006

Well, that’s one way to do it

As part of their struggle against childhood obesity and diabetes, doctors in Australia are pushing for the government to introduce higher taxes on junk foods to make it more expensive that healthy foods like vegetables and fruits.
The article, printed in this week’s Medical Journal of Australia, states that medical experts believe that the country’s obesity […]

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August 14th, 2006

Let me be your cautionary tale

Okay, so let me start this off by saying that I had a rough weekend, and I did so because I was shooting a wedding (as in photography; I did not go on a killing spree) in Austin this weekend. It was an outdoor ceremony in Texas in August, at roughly 105°. Not […]

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August 11th, 2006

Say what?

A British Labour MP has publicly apologized after suggesting that inbreeding may be responsible for an unusual increase in the number of type 1 diabetes in his Norfolk constituency.
In an interview with BBC Radio, Dr. Ian Gibson, a former science lecturer at the University of East Anglia’s School of Biological Sciences, suggested that familial relationships […]

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August 8th, 2006

Good news for diabetic monkeys

Cells transplanted from pigs into diabetic rhesus monkeys have survived for six months and are producing insulin, according to the American Diabetes Association, raising hopes that a cure for diabetes may be possible in the foreseeable future.
The study, which is being performed by a San Diego based company called MicroIslet, has shown that the encapsulate […]

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