At the start of my internship, a 16-year-old girl was brought into the emergency room; she was in a coma. She had been sick for a long time, and her family abandoned her as they thought she was pregnant. It was her neighbour who brought her to the hospital. The girl was very skinny for […]
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Myth: People with diabetes understand what to do when they are unwell Fact: Actually it’s best to give people with diabetes some simple sick day rules and give them a personal care plan telling them what to do if they are unwell. These should be reiterated at times of sickness. Often people may have had […]
The vast majority, probably over ninety per cent of cases of Type 2 diabetes are picked up in the GP surgery. You may go to hospital for an operation, like a hernia, or have a heart attack and get a blood test which shows it up, but other wise, it is usually found in general […]
If you took a step back and looked at the quality of care provided for folks with Type 1 diabetes, it’s perhaps quite easy to slip into click bait territory. It’s all the rage nowadays- irrespective of what level of media you are, it’s all about the click bait. Bad news sells- so it’s fashionable […]
Dr. Rob Tarzwell, a Clinical Assistant Professor on the Faculty of Medicine at the University of British Columbia recently co-authored the largest functional brain imaging study in history, with 21,000 subjects. […]
Results of our research have shown that babies born to mothers with gestational diabetes have more body fat at two months of age compared to babies born to healthy mothers. The study used MRI scanning to measure body fat in 86 babies – we took these readings shortly after birth, and again when the babies […]
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Despite decades of public dietary guidelines devised to optimise human health, the world is now facing an unprecedented global epidemic of obesity and diabetes; threatening to bring the modern health care system to its knees. In this same era we have seen radical changes in the food environment of the Western world. Processed food has […]
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The cost of diabetes hits 825 billion dollars a year, according to new study, according to a team of scientists from Imperial College, London, in collaboration with Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. The World Health Organisation and nearly 500 researchers across the globe, have estimated that the cost of diabetes has hit 825 billion dollars […]
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Residents of the Japanese island of Okinawa have long enjoyed one of the longest life expectancies in the world. As well as having the highest population of centenarians, Okinawa also boasts low disability rates. This has been largely attributed to the Okinawa diet which is nutrient and calorie-rich. Although it includes a relatively small amount […]
Having a baby is the most natural thing in the world. Or is it? Today’s new mothers are more likely than ever to go through labour that has been artificially induced. In fact, the trend for inducing labour has reached epidemic proportions over the last two decades. According to the Department of Health figures for […]