World Diabetes Day edition – Friday, November 12, 2021
World Diabetes Day (WDD) was created in 1991 by the International Diabetes Federation and the World Health Organization in response to growing concerns about the escalating health threat posed by diabetes.
WDD is the world’s largest diabetes awareness campaign reaching a global audience of over one billion people in more than 160 countries.
Thousands of healthcare professionals received vital education at Diabetes Professional Care 2021 this week to help the NHS reboot diabetes care.
The buzz was back as the diabetes professional community came together at DPC2021, which took place at Olympia London on 10 and 11 November, representing the first in-person diabetes event in two years.
The Diabetes Times Editor Oliver Jelley spoke to James Clarke, Head of Commercial at Roche Diabetes Care, in the latest DT Big Interview ahead of World Diabetes Day.
Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and St George’s, University of London have teamed up to lead a half a million-pound artificial intelligence (AI) project.
Funded by NHSX and the Health Foundation, the research project will use AI technology to analyse retinal images from people with diabetes to detect sight-threatening diabetic eye disease.
A group of senior clinicians are inviting healthcare professionals working in diabetes to provide feedback on the current guidance on the use of Variable Rate Insulin Infusion (VRII) in hospital settings.
The Joint British Diabetes Society for Inpatient Care (JBDS-IP) has launched another audit to improve hospital VRII guidelines.
New research has identified the most active social media users who participate in the UK’s online diabetes debate.
From healthcare professionals to people with the condition, new analysis has disclosed the top ten individuals who have published the most diabetes related posts.
A large study has identified a certain protein found in the blood which can predict type 2 diabetes “up to 19 years before” the onset of the disease. To read more, click here.
More than 67,000 adults in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland with type 2 diabetes will now be able to get free personalised support at home on the NHS. To read more, click here.
International efforts to tackle rates of suicide and self-harm in people with diabetes will be the focus of a compelling workshop at this year’s DPC conference. To read more, click here.
A young woman who nearly died from a diabetes-related eating disorder says she “owes her life” to a Northampton-based doctor who saved her. To read more, click here.
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