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How Did Medics Drop British Grandmother Into Icy North Sea?

Police are investigating a bizarre incident at sea involving a 73-year-old British grandmother who took ill on a cruise ship and was accidentally dropped into the sub-zero North Sea by medics trying to transfer her to a rescue boat. Janet Richardson, a diabetic from Cumbria in the U.K., was on the Ocean Princess off...

Studies Show Coffee Drinkers Get Health Perks

Coffee lovers have a reason to celebrate. Recent studies have shown that rather than being harmful, coffee actually provides a variety of health benefits. Alamy Drink up! A recent study shows that women who drink at least one cup of coffee a day have a lower risk of stroke than women who drank less or...

America's New Waistline: The Diabetes Belt [VIDEO]

New Dietary Guidelines Call for Less Salt, Sugar, Solid Fat

With the new year here and Americans everywhere trying to lose weight, the federal government's new dietary guidelines released today call for cutbacks in salt as well as in calories from added sugar and solid fats like butter. The guidelines, which come out every five years, tell people 51 and older, all blacks and...

Setback for Afrezza Diabetes Inhaler: 5 Facts About MannKind Founder Alfred Mann

Shares of biotech firm MannKind Corp. (MNKD) fell today after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration failed to approve its next-generation insulin-delivery device, an inhaler called Afrezza. Regulators are requesting two more studies to test the device's effectiveness in patients with type 1 and type 2 diabetes. MannKind...

Diabetes News From the Web

05/28/12 Illegal kidney trade on rise as demand outstrips supply Source: The Sydney Morning Herald - Sydney NSW - Australia The illegal trade in kidneys has risen to such a level that about 10,000 operations involving purchased human organs now take place annually, amounting to more than one an hour, World Health Organisation experts have revealed.
05/28/12 Commuting just 10 miles to work each day 'increases... Source: Daily Mail - London - UK Workers who commute more than ten miles to work each day are at greater risk of suffering from heart disease, diabetes or cancer, researchers have warned.
05/28/12 Dude, Did I Take My Insulin? Source: Diabetes Daily Whether you take your insulin with a syringe, pen, or pump, chances are you've given yourself enough injections or boluses that it isn't a truly earth-shattering moment anymore.
05/28/12 Diabetics cannot process carbohydrates. It's fact.... Source: Pravda But the recommended diet from the American Diabetes Association is loaded with them.
05/28/12 Medipattern and MYTRAK Combine to Launch Personalized... Source: Russel Metals Inc "The Transaction is expected to be highly accretive for Medipattern shareholders as the potential market for the MyTrak Personal Health Solutions is a multi-billion dollar industry. The market for wireless wearable devices is expected to hit 165 million units by 2017 according to industry analysts ABI Research while the medical component is estimated to have an annual compound growth rate of 65%. The mobile health market is being driven in the United States by wide spread adoption of devices with over 50% of people already using a mobile device. The Pew Research Center, Internet and American Life Project, reports that 17% of US mobile phone users are already accessing health information on their mobile devices with an estimated 44 million health apps having been downloaded in 2011," stated Jeff Collins, President and CEO of Medipattern.

Background on Diabetes

Diabetes mellitus, often simply referred to as diabetes, is a group of metabolic diseases in which a person has high blood sugar, either because the body does not produce enough insulin, or because cells do not respond to the insulin that is produced.

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