Our annual conference was an inspiring and action-packed three days, crammed with research highlights. You can read about the latest on immunotherapies in our last DUKPC blog. Here I’m covering some of the big research themes that were the talk of the town. Drilling down into subtypes Professor Andrew Hattersley gave the conference’s most prestigious lecture…
Hello. I’m Jon, a content producer here at Diabetes UK. I’d like to tell you about some really exciting new videos we’ve made, and the process we undertook to produce them. Here is the story of our brand new ‘What is diabetes’ video series. It started with our rebrand. Our old videos, though the information…
That all people in the world can get quality health services, where and when they need them, without suffering financial hardship; that’s the vision of universal health coverage and the campaigning message behind today’s World Health Day. When we consider that theme from the perspective of all types of diabetes in the UK we must…
This International Women’s Day, we’re celebrating inspirational women and diabetes. From the strong, courageous women who live with diabetes day in day out to the determined fundraisers and volunteers. Not forgetting the women who dedicate their lives to help others living with diabetes. Young adults, Laura and Zoe Laura, 24, and Zoe, 26, have been…
When I meet people now for the first time they have no idea that I am a diabetic who has become tablet free and lost a load of weight. Last week – on Thursday 1 March – the school where I work, closed for the day due to heavy snow. So as normal I planned to make…
World Book Day is on 1 March – and what better way to celebrate the joy of reading than with a brilliant book? Laura Walkinshaw, Senior Editor at Diabetes UK, gives a round-up of the books and other publications available from the charity Now in its 21st year, World Book Day is the world’s biggest…