A Fareham teenager will be co-chairing a Parliament event in a bid to gain more government support towards finding a cure for Type 1 diabetes.
Amy Wilton, aged 17, of Frosthole Crescent, has been selected by Type 1 diabetes charity JDRF to head the event after years of raising awareness over the condition.
Diabetic iPhone and iPod touch users are set to benefit from a clip on device that works as a hi-tech glucose monitor.
The iBG Star, which costs £48 and is being rolled out across Boots stores from today, will allow users to check their blood sugar levels at any time using their phone or MP3 player.
At just one inch long, the product plugs into the devices and even comes with a diabetes manager app that flashes the results on screen and produces trends and variations.
People Like You tells the story of diabetics from across the nation. Diabetes can bring on other insidious complications, and for many, loss of vision can be one of them. At the age of 24, Julie Graham lost her sight completely due to a range of complications. However, after five years of living with loss of vision, Julie reveals how it has affected her life, and what changes she would like to see to help those who are in a similar situation.
The chief executive of a diabetes charity has blamed the ‘scandal of early deaths and preventable complications’ in people with diabetes on the Government.
Barbara Young, the Chief Executive of Diabetes UK, has spoken out on how the Government’s ‘failure to match its words on diabetes healthcare’ were the cause of the early deaths and preventable complications.
Researchers at a university are investigating how health literacy affects diabetes management in a Staffordshire city.
A research team at the Centre for Psychological Research at Keele University are aiming to produce a report for Stoke-on-Trent City Council to offer them a better idea on how to support people with diabetes in the Stoke-on-Trent area.
Two Wolverhampton mothers are hoping to offer help for local people affected by diabetes by setting up their own support group.
Zoe Sherwood, from New Invention, and Lorraine Blower, from Wednesfield, have kick started the Wolverhampton T1 Network after feeling that there was a lack of support in their community.
For Zoe, setting up the group has its personal reasons, as her son Lewis, aged 7, pictured, was diagnosed with the condition in December 2008.
The HRH Duchess of Cornwall labelled children who live with Type 1 diabetes as ‘extremely brave’ after visiting a hospital facility that researches the condition.
The duchess was touched by the children’s stories following a flying visit to the Cambridge Wellcome Trust clinical research facility to learn about the work of JDRF yesterday.
People Like You tells the story of diabetics from across the nation. This article tells the story of a man who almost saw his dream of becoming a pilot crumble when he was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes…until he took matters into his own hands.
When the clock struck 12am on the 1 January, 2012, most people would have used that moment to look back at the year that was, and everything that happened in 2011.
But for some people, 2011 was a year they won’t forget for all the wrong reasons. It is estimated that over 130,000 people were diagnosed with Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes in 2011 alone, and with the diagnosis came the usual feelings of anger, sadness and in some cases, depression.
The Diabetes Chronicle caught up with four newly diagnosed diabetics from different walks of life who shared their stories on 2011, the year that diabetes entered their lives.
Today heralds a day that many diabetics can mark in their calendars.
Ninety years ago, 14-year-old Leonard Thompson- who lay dying in Toronto General Hospital, Canada- was given the first injection of insulin.
