With your help, we’re currently investing over £2.8 million in research into the complications of diabetes. In this blog post, I’ll give you a quick overview of the ongoing projects our researchers are working on to combat complications, and you can read more about (or even adopt!) them on our website. The brain uses glucose…
Tweet This week Simon rounds up the latest technologies, medicines and treatments. In a regular blog series, Simon O’Neill, Diabetes UK’s Director of Health Intelligence and Professional Liaison, rounds up the latest diabetes news. Big Brother is watching you… For those of you who remember the supercomputer HAL, in 2001, A Space Odyssey, the idea of supercomputers…
Tweet Today (January 15) the UK’s National Screening Committee’s (NSC) is recommending that diabetic screening for people with diabetes who are at very low risk of sight loss should be reduced from once a year to once every two years – you can read about the NSC recommendations here. The interval between screening tests for…
Tweet Share Hope everyone is ok and ready for summer (that’s if we have one here!). I am going to the Canaries at the end of the month, which means the majority of my hand luggage will as always, be taken up by insulin, needles, cereal bars, food etc. and I am hoping I can…
Tweet Share Hi everyone! Hope you all had a great Easter, unfortunately I only received one Easter egg, one of the main reasons being the fact I am diabetic, so maybe that’s a good thing! However I did find it hard watching everyone else gorge on milk chocolate. I was offered a diabetic Easter egg,…