Generous readers who a) like fundraising for Diabetes UK; b) don’t like rattling a tin; c) like Intermaweb-based systems, will be thrilled to hear that Diabetes UK have launched a new on-line fundraising system (or you would have been, if I had not stolen my own thunder in the headline…) The new site can be… Read More »
Despite my championing multiple daily injections in a previous article, I have to finally come out and confess that I’m getting a pump. Eventually. Back in the heady days of July, I popped along to my diabetes clinic and spoke to the specialist diabetes nurse about pumps. We discussed my diabetes and the problems that… Read More »
I noticed a recent article in the soaraway Australian rag The Brisbane Times that there has been a recent and violent schism between ;
Diabetes UK have just published their Key Statistics on Diabetes report, 2009. It makes for interesting reading and certainly puts the diabetes problem into perspective. Here’s a look at some of the numbers. Diabetes affects 246 million people worldwide and is expected to affect 380 million by 2025 – so we’re definitely not alone! There… Read More »