A Position Statement on the cardiovascular impact of new diabetes medications has been published by ABCD.
The document has been drafted to help and support ABCD members and healthcare professionals who are treating people with diabetes.
The deadline for the 2021 Rowan Hillson Inpatient Safety Award has been extended to give busy healthcare professionals more time to submit an application, organisers have said.
The theme for this year’s prize, which is organised by Joint British Diabetes Societies for Inpatient Care (JBDS – IP), is based around COVID-19.
A series of CPD-accredited webinars will give healthcare professionals a unique view of what diabetes care looks like in 2021.
The DPC Winter Forum is a series of six free, independently produced webinars with each being led by a panel of experts from the diabetes multi-disciplinary team.
For the first time a position statement has been published providing clinicians with guidance on how to help people with Cardiovascular disease (CVD) and diabetes start exercising safely again.
A team of international experts, including a Swansea University academic, contributed to the document, entitled ‘Acute glycaemic management before, during and after exercise for cardiac rehabilitation participants with diabetes mellitus‘.
Junior doctors are invited to apply for a position within the Joint British Diabetes Societies Inpatient Care (JBDS – IP).
This unremunerated post is designed to help “refresh and update the existing guidelines” that have been produced and to help JBDS understand and appreciate the needs of junior doctors.
Major diabetes care company Ascensia is once again supporting a global campaign which aims to prevent children dying from diabetes.
The Spare a Rose campaign encourages people to donate the $5 cost of each rose they would have given to someone on Valentine’s Day to Life for a Child.
The use of sodium-glucose co-transporter-2 (SGLT2) inhibitors in type 2 diabetes if albuminuria is greater than 30mg/mmol is a key change in the newly amended NICE guidance for Chronic Kidney Disease. To read more, click here.
A link between severe COVID-19 infections and new cases of diabetes in some people has been discovered in research which has shown that 14.4 per cent of people who became severely ill with coronavirus developed diabetes. To read more, click here.
A disproportionately higher COVID-19 death risk in middle-aged people with type 2 diabetes, raises questions over vaccination strategies across Europe, a team from the University of Exeter has said. To read more, click here.
The shape of blood vessels in the eyes of those with type 2 diabetes could help identify who might be at risk of developing diabetic retinopathy in the future, new research has shown. To read more, click here.
The introduction of a new enhanced service on obesity and weight management with NHS England is set to be discussed by the British Medical Association’s GP Committee. To read more, click here.
Liraglutide has been officially approved as an obesity treatment on the NHS for people with pre-diabetes under the care of specialist weight loss clinics. To read more, click here.
The NHS Diabetes Programme has commissioned two online programmes for people with type 1 diabetes in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. To read more, click here.
I suspect this was inevitable... a culmination of the last fair few years of insular views or nationalistic approach most, if not all, countries have taken. A sign of the times when the focus invariably has been on nations vying with each other, adopting the chest thumping approach to all things, yet which blended into an intriguing space once the pandemic took shape - and then a firm grip over our lives. To read more, click here.
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