Monday, July 14, 2008
Grassroots role urged in diabetes fight
Healthcare providers at the grassroots should play a bigger role in preventing and controlling diabetes, which currently afflicts more than 40 million Chinese, health officials and experts have said.
Going to doctors in large hospitals for treatment and taking prescribed medication is not adequate for containing diabetes, said Yang Wenying, chairwoman of the Chinese Diabetes Society.
"We need qualified educators to help patients combat the chronic disease," Yang said at the launching ceremony of the Jonson-Jonson Diabetes Institute on Friday.
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Going to doctors in large hospitals for treatment and taking prescribed medication is not adequate for containing diabetes, said Yang Wenying, chairwoman of the Chinese Diabetes Society.
"We need qualified educators to help patients combat the chronic disease," Yang said at the launching ceremony of the Jonson-Jonson Diabetes Institute on Friday.
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Got diabetes? Connect!
Social networking has come to the diabetes community in a big way with the launch of Diabetic Connect, a product of Alliance Health.
Alliance CEO Stead Burwell said it’s exciting that the demographics being drawn to Diabetic Connect are close to those of the actual diabetic population.
We’re seeing that 52% of our users are between 40-60, 35% are over 60, and 13% are under the age of 40.
64% of the people who come through our site have selected Type II diabetes. Historically the patient population of diabetics has a very vocal Type I community and a huge Type II community that’s underserved. We’ve built a community of both Type I and Type II.
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Alliance CEO Stead Burwell said it’s exciting that the demographics being drawn to Diabetic Connect are close to those of the actual diabetic population.
We’re seeing that 52% of our users are between 40-60, 35% are over 60, and 13% are under the age of 40.
64% of the people who come through our site have selected Type II diabetes. Historically the patient population of diabetics has a very vocal Type I community and a huge Type II community that’s underserved. We’ve built a community of both Type I and Type II.
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Compound could be diabetes 'saviour'
AUSTRALIAN have discovered that a chemical compound acts as a "saviour" for dying insulin cells in type two diabetics, offering new hope in combating the disease.
The "chemical chaperone" has been found to stop cells that make insulin in the pancreas from dying off, as they do in people with type two or lifestyle diabetes.
The breakthrough, shown in the laboratory at the Garvan Institute in Sydney, is yet to be tested on humans, but researchers say it is a promising development to help combat a fast-growing disease.
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The "chemical chaperone" has been found to stop cells that make insulin in the pancreas from dying off, as they do in people with type two or lifestyle diabetes.
The breakthrough, shown in the laboratory at the Garvan Institute in Sydney, is yet to be tested on humans, but researchers say it is a promising development to help combat a fast-growing disease.
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