Pregnancy and the thought of bringing a new life into this world can be scary – particularly when managing your diabetes. Often a patient’s main concern centers around the difficulties of actual conception, rather than how to stay healthy during the pregnancy itself. But at NEEDS (North East Essex Diabetes Service), we support patients through…
Last year, metformin celebrated its 60th anniversary and is still the first-line treatment for Type 2 diabetes. And recent research suggests new applications of this traditional medication in cancer, cardiovascular risk, ageing and pregnancy. Dr Eleanor Kennedy, Research Manager at the Diabetes Research and Wellness Foundation, explains how metformin is enjoying a new lease of…
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…
Last year, NHS England awarded around £44 million in transformation funding to help diabetes services across England improve footcare, diabetes education, access to diabetes inpatient specialist nurses, and to help people meet targets for blood pressure, cholesterol, and HbA1c. Some areas were successful in getting some of that money, some weren’t. But is a big…
Each year thousands of diabetes healthcare professionals come to our professional conference to share knowledge and change lives. Find out how people living with diabetes can get the inside track on this exciting event – including the launch of our brand new Insider event. The Diabetes UK Professional Conference is taking place Wednesday 14 –…
I’m a science student and I’m carrying out research that’s looking at how to spot diabetic kidney disease in its early stages by studying a test that looks at whether the kidneys are leaking protein into urine. I was motivated to get involved in this area of diabetes research because of the experiences of my uncle, who…