Spreading to TV

A TV chef's new goal is to reduce the risk of Type 2 diabetes by teaching people how to make healthier good tasting food. I think this is a good idea, if people can associate healthy and good tasting then the risk for a lot of people would be way lower.

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Coffee May Reduce Risk of Type 2?

In a recently released study of an 18 year period Harvard Researchers followed a large group of men and women who did not start off with Type 2 Diabetes. Every 2-4 years they would answer questions like 'caffinated or decafe?' and how much they drink. Over the years it showed that men who drank more then six cups of coffee a day cut their risk in half while women who drank six cups or more lowered theirs by 30%. The American Diabetes Association says more studies should be done on this before they tell people to just go and start drinking gallons of coffee. I would have to agree with them. This could be a fairly big thing to study in the upcoming years about whether or not coffee has an affect on your chances of getting Type 2. 

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BioGaia

A recent pilot test on a new drug shows promising results, now the company testing this new drug to control Glucose level in Type 2 people are looking for volunteers for this study. It is a double-blind placibo effect study that shows much promise...

More once the study is completed.

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~Stephanie

Diabetes Circle [Monday]

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This is basically the circle and cause of Type 2 diabetes, though Type 2 can also be caused by the body no longer responding to insulin the body produces. It shows the main set of reasons a person gets Type 2 as well.

~Stephanie

Renal Failure

In a recent study in the UK, they found that people with Type 2 Diabetes have a higher risk in Renal Failure. Renal Failure is when your kidneys fail to perform the needs for the human body. Figuring out how to prevent this is important because people with diabetes have enough to deal without Kidney Failure.

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Children's Risk [Thursday]

In a recent study children 12-18 with a body mass in the 85th or higher percentile were evaluated for how likely they were to get type 2 they also evaluated parents. I think this is a good thing to do, make sure the parents and children are both aware of the risks.

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Type 2

In recent studies of Type 2 in Elderly people it has shown the same symptoms as Alzheimer. Loss of memory, coordination, thoughts, etc. More studies should be looked into to help this symptom. Having the same symptoms as Alzheimers makes it harder for elderly people, while there are already high numbers of Alzheimers plus Type 2 diabetes causes many problems.

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3-Year Research Project

In a recent study, three Philadelphia Middle Schools were taken over to help in some research with Type 2 Diabetes. Professionals came in and made several changes around the school:

• Instead of standing in line to do a layup they passed balls back and forth in Gym
• There were other options to do while waiting for your turn (ex: Jumprope, Medicine Balls)
• They replaced the fatty pizza with low-fat pizza and the kids didn't notice
• Only water in the school vending machines
• Sent letters home with things like 'TAKE THE TV TURNOFF CHALLANGE' and 'BE ACTIVE 60 MINUTES A DAY'

Overall the study was a success because it wasn't hard, it was just a few small changes to help the kids change a little at school so they can change at home as well.

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more about type 2

Type 2 diabetes was once known as the adult-onset or noninsulin-dependent diabetes. It is when the body stops responding to Insulin and the only way to keep it under control is medication, before this type of diabetes was nearly unheard of! 


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American Type 2 Diabetes

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This graph is a great graph to not only show the diabetes rates in New York (top graph) but also the united states and the world. It shows all the parts in both a shaded map and a small ogive plot to the left. These statistics are an important part that everyone should know, maybe not exact numbers but that North America has the highest percentage of Type 2 Diabetes.

Type 2 Diabetes Information

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This site is clear and straight forward when it comes to laying out type 2 diabetes. This shows all the site effects symptoms and what it is in general. It is something that is always good to know, even if you aren't at risk of it, or you don't know anyone who has it.

Diabetes in Young People

There has been a massive increase in the cases of Type 2 diabetes in young people. In 1990, there was nearly no cases in children or young people of this world. People have been worried and stressed about this. People have been trying to figure this out because it is very alarming. If the children of today are diagnosed with life threatening diseases, then that completely changes the life expectancy and every thing else about it. 

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Diabetes Increase

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This is the estimated increase in major medical risks for two thousand and twenty three. Type 2 diabetes is raised 54% and obesity is 28%. Looking at this graph it gives me little hope that people will be able to change in time to keep this from happening in ten-eleven years.

Philly! 2008

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This Graph shows how much higher the percentages in Black and Latino people are vs. white or all races. This is an important statistic because it allows us to see how type two effects different races.

Type 2 Diabetes Graph

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This graph is very good, because it shows the difference in diagnoses of Type 2 diabetes according to race, normally I wouldn't like a graph organized like this on my blog considering I am about class not race, but I think it is important to show this as well. As you can see the numbers are averagely higher in men and in Mexican Americans. What does this tell you about the races and how they live their lives? Does it show what the problems are? Yes I think it does.

Background Information on Type 2

Type 2 diabetes is when the body does not produce enough insulin or the cells ignore the insulin and don't take it. People at higher risk of Type 2 are the elderly, African Americans, Latinos, Native Americans, and Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders. Studies have shown this many times and again.

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Type 2 strikes Kenya's Middle-Class Kids

An outbreak of type 2 diabetes has hit Kenya, effecting children as young as six years old. Scientists say that it is because of obesity, lack of exercise, and fast-food diets. I am inclined to agree with them. These are the causes of Type 2 diabetes. It often does hit the middle-class, the lower-class often too. From what I have seen it rarely hits the upper-class of society. Who knows why this is, maybe because they grew up eating better food, or doing more things then the middle-class children of today. But it does hit the middle-class the hardest from what I have seen, the fast-food diets and unhealthy ways of living pushing it along.

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Mutations in Diabetes

This article explains the mutations in diabetes. One to Five percent of cases in young people have mutations in them making the diabetes either particularly hard to control or even more deadly then it already is. Often Type Two doesn't have mutations.

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Effectiveness of Glucose Lowering Treatments

13 different studies have been studied and reviewed by several scientists. They have all been compiled into a simple yet effective article that explains the effectiveness. The only problem with this article is it has been both proven correct and proven different results in other studies. It does not have much of a range or a pool of studies to choose from. Only 13.

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Sugared Beverages and Obesity

Obesity has gone up  over the years while the mass production of sugared beverages and sweetened things have gone up as well. With these things going up Type Two has gone up, it is caused mostly by too much sugar in the blood and your body not being able to make enough insulin to make sure your blood sugar is at a safe rate. 

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Dietary Fats and Prevention

The highest amount that get type 2 diabetes are people with unhealthy life styles. Many articles  have come out with ways to control and prevent type 2. One on here tells you not only how to prevent it but also what will cause it. Getting informed is one of the best ways to make sure you don't get something like Type 2.

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What is the Diabetes Blue Circle?

Before 2006 there was no international symbol for diabetes, not just type two but type one as well. They created the symbol so that there was something to show diabetes and to make it possible for people to identify diabetes. Having the symbol shows that people care about diabetes and it is a global thing, everyone suffers from the effect, maybe not every single person, but every country. The blue circle is very important to people with diabetes, it allows them to signify that they are who they are and they are fighting for it. 

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Type 2 Diabetes Management

This short simple article states the three  main ways of controlling type two diabetes, and almost curing it, even though people will have to deal with this all their lives, but it can be so controlled it is nearly non-exsistant. Managing it with both medication and natural ways is very effective, but is one better then the other? Let me know what you think.

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Diabetes Cartoon

Often times this is all too true for people with diabetes, they look and shockingly see that their blood sugar is at a dangerous level and they have to fix it fast. Maybe one day they won't have to worry so much about it and they will be able to live a mostly normal life, and be heroes to those around them. Diabetes is not like cancer because someone can not say 'I am a survivor' when it comes to diabetes as it will always be with them, forever until they die.

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Diabetes Quick Fix

That is the title of the article I am to tell you about. But what can I really say about it? The recipe will not cure your diabetes in one meal. It may help control it and with other meals like it it is possible. But not just with this one meal. While the title is a good way to bring attention to the article it isn't always good to be misleading. 

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Spike in Diabetes Rates: China

The diabetes rates have gone up in China as the quality of life has gone up. Many things have changed in China along with the lack of exercise, the less healthy diets etc. I think that things like this need to be slowed down and even stopped. Not just in China but also everywhere else.

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~Stephanie

$20,000 Fund for Diabetes Research

Elijamal and FeulCo raised $20,000 for diabetes research, this fundraising event only took place in fifteen locations around the country even though there were countless gas stations that it could have been at. People showing support and raising money for diabetes shows that everyone wants to see the research be done to help people with diabetes. Hopefully this will allow more money to be donated and more medication to be made.

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~Stephanie

Santa has Diabetes?

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I doubt the childhood spirit of Christmas has diabetes but it is a good representation of what could happen. Its up to you to not eat 'all the cookies' like Santa did in this comic. It was up to him to keep himself from getting diabetes and he wasn't able to do it. Are you like Santa? You can control if you get Type Two diabetes, or you can try to control it.

~Stephanie.

Glaxo

A new once-weekly diabetes injection drug is seeking approval. Several studies were sent to the board for review all pointing to this injection being the best and most capable thing to help people with diabetes. Approving this drug will be a step in the right direction, maybe the next step is once a month.

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~Stephanie

Diabetes Drug Helps Cancer Patients

A diabetes drug has been shown to not only help people with diabetes, but also people with prostate cancer, early stages of pancreatic cancer and even oral tumors due to recent studies. These studies were presented to the Cancer Association in Chicago on Saturday. Finding out that a diabetes drug causes side effects that are helpful and not harmful is an amazing thing, and to find it helps something like cancer it is even better. 

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~Stephanie

New Yogurt Drink

A new yogurt drink fortified with Vitamin D and Vitamin D plus according to a new study can help cure Diabetes Two. I think that anything to help with diabetes is a great thing. Is it for sure there to help cure it though, or will it have side effects. A completely natural way of doing this I think is a good idea though.

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~Stephanie

High Risk Diabetes in Over Weight Baby Girls

In a new study that has followed larger baby girls since birth to when they are seventeen it has been proven that these girls are at higher risk for diabetes. Finding out that girls that are overweight as children have a higher risk of diabetes is a great break through, knowing that these women do have the risk they will be able to take steps to prevent it.

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~Stephanie

New Diabetes Risk Test

The American diabetes association has come out with a new test that can supposedly determine if you are at risk for diabetes. But has this been tested? Sure it can tell you if you are getting there maybe, but can it tell you if you will get it, or if you won't get it for sure. Before you come out with something like this it needs to be tested to make sure it really works. Its a good idea, just an untested one. Article Source

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Surgery Continued

In a recent post I explained to you a new surgery that came out as experimental and was said to cure type two diabetes. Reading another blog, this blogger stated that it doesn't work, what works is the side effects to the surgery because they make you drop weight, therefore curing type two diabetes. The thing with type two is it can be cured with simply a healthier life style. While the surgery may work because of the side effects, could the new life style be more effective? Maybe the surgery is just some people's easy way out so they don't have to retrain their minds and bodies.

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~Stephanie

Stroke and Kidney Failure

Stroke in 2009/2010 has risen 57% from what it was previously in people with diabetes (type one and type two) and Kidney failure has also risen to an alarming rate rising nearly 35% in recent studies. As this continues to happen, scientists will need to find ways to keep this from rising until both are 100% of England's diabetes population. Studies hopefully will show new medications to help with these side effects.

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~Stephanie

New Diabetes Drug

After the severing of a nine year partner ship a company comes out with a new type of Basal insulin. I think a new form of insulin is good. Many people are often not able to use some insulin so different brands or forms of it are helpful.

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~Stephanie

New Medication

In recent studies a new medication that helps Type Two diabetes has been placed on the market. It has been proven to produce weightloss which is a huge factor in helping type two. I think this is a very good thing to be coming out, because it is not directly treating the diabetes, but instead it is treating the weight that has caused it.

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~Stephanie

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Experimental Surgery

Brazil doctors have come up with an experimental surgery that could cure type two diabetes. It consists of moving one piece of the intestinal track to a new area. It has a 50% chance of working. Finding a way, even experimentally to cure type two is a huge feat at the hands of scientists and doctors of this. I think this is a great thing and maybe it can even move to type one.

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~Stephanie

Diabetes Cartoon

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This shows how most new drugs are tested and why diabetes drugs are not tested this way.  Giving some people the new drug and some people the placebo it causes them to not have the proper medication and go into diabetic shock. I'm glad that they don't test the new diabetes drugs this way because diabetic shock is not only dangerous but it is also deadly.

~Stephanie

Blueberries

Blueberries have been shown to lower your risk of Type 2 diabetes due to flavonoids due to a recent US study. People that eat more apples and blueberries have a less likely chance of being diagnosed with Type 2. Finding out healthy ways to prevent Type 2 will hopefully really change (for the better) the number of people diagnosed with it every year. The number seems to be growing higher, but wouldn't it be better if we could lower that number? More things like this just need to come out and people need to pay attention to them.

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~Stephanie

Eating White Rice

In new studies, it has been shown that people who eat more white rice or white bread have a high risk of being diagnosed with type two diabetes. They move on to say that this is alarming for the Asian populations because that has been one stable food in Asian for thousands of years. I would have to agree with the scientists, knowing that white rice can cause type two will change the way Asians eat and what they eat. It will completely shift the style of food.

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~Stephanie

Genetic Form of Diabetes

In muslim familes where the tradition is to marry another family member a rare genetic form of diabetes is popping up among people. Originally the people were diagnosed with type one and then treated for it as well. After studies into the genetic and other things about the people they find that it is a genetic disorder. Scientists are working on a way to treat it because other treatments will not work for it. Having a new form pop up is worrysome. If this becomes a genetic disorder that anyone can get like type one and there is no way to treat it, everyone could be in trouble.

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~Stephanie



For Wednesday

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Due to technical difficulties this is one day late. Sorry for the lateness. In this comic it is a doctor giving a paitent a shot which he has been told was for diabetes. After giving him the shot he was told that it was a warning shot so that he learned his lesson from it. If this was an actual practice I'm sure no one would really learn their lesson and eat healthier.

~Steffenee

Gen Y is Diabetes Generation

Due to the alarming increase in the amount of people diagnosed with diabetes in Australia people have now moved from calling Generation Y the Me Generation to the Diabetes Generation. Scientists have estimated that there will be more then three million people with diabetes in Australia in the year 2025. Scientists have started to make moves to prevent this from happening, but it will be hard to change this pattern of diabetes diagnoses. Not only has the Type Two (based on weight) gone up but so has the amount of people with Type One. It baffles scientists why both would go up when only one is relating to weight. I hope scientists find a way to change this so that we aren't considered the 'Diabetes Generation' anymore.

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~Stephanie

Chicago Blogger

A recent blogger in Chicago read an article about people making over the counter drugs to help diabetes and high blood pressure. His views are the same as mine for the most part, while it is a good idea to have more drugs assessable to the people who need them, what happens if someone who doesn't decides to buy and take one of these drugs?

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~Stephanie

amputation rates up in UK

In recent studies in the UK have shown that amputation rates have reached ten times what they were in 2007. People in the UK need to get their diabetes amputations under control and stop all the harm it is causing. Scientists need to find what is causing all the problems.

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~Stephanie

Insulin Overdose?

A teenage girl about to audition for 'the X-Factor', a famous singing competition TV show in London, overdosed on her mealtime insulin  accidentally which ultimately caused her death. While it is not the scientists fault, they should work to change it so insulin will not kill you if you accidentally overdose. More drugs to help diabetes come out on the market everyday, but with insulin having the ability to kill people it is something that should be focused on.

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~Stephanie

Diabetes Comic

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This shows a look at what the average American family will tell their children, I have had my parents tell me this and my friends parents. I wouldn't be able to tell you if international families tell their kids not to eat too many sweets because of diabetes, but there is truth to that statement. The US has one of the highest and probably the highest level of people with both Type One and Type Two diabetes.

~Stephanie

Diabetes Pricing to 2017

New diabetes treatment has been priced all the way up through 2017. Companies pricing their products all the way up through a year so far in the future causes problems for people who will expect it one way for a long time. What happens when the economy chances and the price has to go up or is brought down? It can throw off the costumers and the companies plans. Pricing that far in advance may be good, but they also can cause much harm in the economy.

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~Stephanie

New Diabetes Drug

Novartis Ghana has released a new drug that will work for both type one and type two. The drug costs roughly $1.50 a tablet and it needs to be taken once or twice a day depending on doctor recommendation. This drug is good to have on the market, but with it being so expensive who knows how many people will be able to afford this drug. We are getting a lot of drugs on the market, now the problem is the price. How are we suppose to be helping people when things are too expensive for people to afford?

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~Stephanie

Stroke Risk

A recent study has found that your stroke risk will triple after a decade with diabetes. Fixing this should be a priority and should be top of the list for diabetes research. Strokes damage the brain and motoskills, if not kill the person who has a stroke. Strokes are just as deadly as diabetes and this needs to be fixed.

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~Stephanie

Cancer Research Cartoon

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In this comic it shows the government (the man talking to the scientist) talking to the medical researchers about a cure for cancer, the business owners that now have to do cancer prevention are breathing down his neck to have them find the cure and stop the cancer prevention. A lot of times this is true, the government is being pressured by the people to push scientists or other companies to do things to help other people that own other things that are effected. Sadly that is the way the government in America works and these things need to be fixed in our government and medical researchers.

~Stephanie

Diabetes Drug Retesting

Merck has been asked to retest their new drug after it has been approved by thee FDA. The FDA will sometimes decide to retest drugs if reports have come in about side effects not known about in the original testing. Companies may be fined up to $250,000 if they do not comply to retest their drug. The new drug on the market from Merck has been reported to cause pancreas inflammation. Not many companies refuse to do this but there are some that do. Refusing to retest drugs not only result in a in a fine, but it can result in people dying from diseases contracted or side effects to the drug. 

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~Stephanie

New Diabetes Drug

A new diabetes drug has been released that will effect people with type 2 diabetes. A medical researcher at the University of Michigan rounded up some 200 people for this study and most people had stabilized levels by week 12. New drugs on the market to help diabetes will change the way the diabetes market work. From what is told about this drug there have been no known serious side effects which is one of the only drugs I have seen without one or two at least. Who knows what will come up once people begin taking the drug?

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~Stephanie

Diabetes Type One Drug Helps Type Two

Researches at a college in Buffalo, NY recently found that a drug that was approved for Type One also helps people with Type two and have recently been awarded $600,000 in grants to continue their research on this drug hoping to have a new drug out on the market soon to help people with Type Two. More diabetes drug studies will lead to more breakthroughs and more things that will help people with diabetes.

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~Stephanie

New Diabetes Drug

After much testing and two rejections in 2010 Bydureon, a new diabetes drug, is now approved by the F.D.A. It isn't surprising that this drug was denied twice two years ago, because it was said to have caused irregular heartbeat rhythm. Finally after much debate the new drug is on the market. Third time is the charm. Everyday testing of new drugs to help with different numbers of things allow more and more drugs to be put out into the system so that maybe we can get virus's that are immune to most to actually be treated by a drug. As new drugs come out though, there will always be a new virus that will beat the system. There will always be a new side effect that could take lives or severally change people.

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~Stephanie

Mortality Risk

Pfeffer, a doctor doing studies on diseases linked to diabetes, says that having type two gives you almost double the normal mortality rate to kidney disease, they did a study on some 91,700 patients 7.5% of which died. Doing this study has opened up new doors to diseases linked to diabetes and how to treat them. Dealing with the increased risks of things and diabetes is hard for some people to handle but knowing that there are scientists and doctors working on ways to help is important.

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~Stephanie

Germ Cartoon

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Describing how scientists will warp germs and bacteria and that they might not always be able to control it. It would be hard to control a gene the size of the room. Things are different when you look at how scientist could be severally harming you or have the possibility of harming you.

~Stephanie

Children with Diabetes

Over the last year children for diabetes complications and DKA which is when there is high blood sugar levels. They continue on to say that without treatment you can go into a diabetic coma. Warning children of this serious complication will change the way they look at and track their diabetes. Most children would not track it if not for their parents there to prod them along and to remind them that they need to check these things so they don't get seriously ill, hopefully this warning will make it possible for children to take the responsibility of their health in their own hands.

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~Stephanie

F.D.A Delays approval

The F.D.A delayed the approval of a new set of diabetes drugs, they said that more testing would need to be done before it would be deemed safe enough to release on the market for people with diabetes to take. New diabetes drugs are approved and denied more and more. Diabetes is a tricky thing to have drugs on the market for because so many things could go wrong and so many side effects could come up that weren't expected. Though this could happen with any drug that is going out on the market. Drugs are things that need to be studied a lot before released but there is not nearly enough drugs for diabetes out there because their are still people battling for their lives. 

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~Stephanie

Chocolate Helps with Diabetes

Scientists in the UK did a recent study that found that women who ate the enriched chocolate that was part of this study increased resistance to insulin and cholesterol. This is a good breakthrough in the field of diabetes, but scientists stress that women with type two should not each more chocolate because the chocolate that helped these women had much higher levels than any store bought candy bar. If they keep expanding on this research there might be another breakthrough in the diabetes field.

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~Stephanie

Animal Testing Cartoon

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A cartoon depicting people testing drugs on mice for the human population. Obviously animal testing isn't a good thing to do but it has led to many medical breakthroughs in everything from cold medicine to heart medicine to diabetes drugs. The mice in this cartoon obviously do not look happy that they aren't getting credit as the test subjects for these risky tests and the scientists get all the credit. That is the way it is and while you can't really give animals credit for making the scientific breakthrough you can still give them credit for helping with it, because without them there wouldn't be the new drug on the market.

~Stephanie

1st Hearing for Diabetes Law Suit

In Louisiana a judge has scheduled an initial hearing for the first in a series of law suits against a diabetes drug company. This company has mass produced its product and now they are being sued because their product has been said to have the side effect of increased chance of bladder cancer. Diabetes drugs are risky to research and produce and it is hard to say what exactly the side effects could be of these drugs. Many people have taken this and I am almost sure not all of them got bladder cancer or even had an increased risk of getting it. It is side effects like this though that we need to get rid of and change. If every drug had a side effect similar to this what would happen to the world as we knew it today. If it is not okay for every drug to have a side effect like this why is it okay for a diabetes drug to have a side effect like this when it is going out to people already suffering from a life threatening disease if not under control.

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~Stephanie

Diabetes

It has been about ninty years since the first injection of insulin to a person with type one diabetes and people in the UK celebrate the scientist and doctor who made this breakthrough. Before this breakthrough type one diabetes was killing almost everyone who ended up with it. There was no cause and no cure for it and almost everyone who got it was dead within a few weeks of being diagnosed. Scientists have come a long way since this first shot of insulin but they still have a long way to go. It is the leading cause of blindness and they have a 7% chance of birth defects. Women who suffer from diabetes and men for that matter do not only suffer from diabetes but all the things that could happen to them because of diabetes. Scientists have been studying for years on diabetes and they still have so much to learn. Apmutations still happen and people still go into diabetic comas. Scientists should be working to find better ways to manage not only the disease but also the syptoms that come along with it. Until they find a way to prevent things like hearing loss and birth defects in children because of diabetes, and until they have it cured, scienctists should not stop working on breakthroughs.

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Heart Disease

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Scientist in Britain have done a recent study that has tracked a form of heart disease that kills thousands every year to the Y chromosome passed from father to son. They did this study on about 3,000 men from all over Britain. Focusing in on what can cause heart disease may make it better for helping prevent people from dying from it. Knowing where it originates can completely change the studies going on around it.

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~Stephanie

Medical Research 'Mutant Jeans' Cartoon

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This cartoon drawn by an artist that allowed it to be posted on www.CartoonStock.com is suppose to show a scientist studying Mutant Jeans, as many scientists are studying today, but instead of studying human genes he is studying mutant Jeans like the pants. A good representation of what scientists study while also making it fun to read.

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~Stephanie

Genetic Parkinson's Disease Brain Cells Made in Lab

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Resent studies on Parkinson's disease has shown some amazing results. Parkinson's disease cells have been created in a lab by a small group of scientists. They say this breakthrough can now allow them to see the mutations of the parkin gene and target the mutations in one out of every ten people with the disease. Studying Parkinson's disease and having this breakthrough will help the scientists of the age find more ways to help people with this disease.

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~Stephanie

Application of New Clinical Trials for Cancer Treatments In Norway

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The Norwegians have started studies for new trials of clinical cancer research. These new treatments focus around genomics and helping the paitents better. The UK did something like this not too long ago and started their own trials with the new forms of treatment and Norway is following in their footsteps. Cancer research is something that should never stop even if the world ends, in my opinion anyway. Cancer research is hard for someone to be able pinpoint exactly what kind of cancer this could help and why. That is why it should continue. Until we can say for sure that this treatment will help this cancer all the time then we have not researched it enough.

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~Stephanie

Diabetes Pregnancy Risks

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Today we will be talking about the risks Diabetic women have of getting pregnant and having children with birth defects. In a recent study in the UK scientists have shown that women with Diabetes have a 75 chance of having children with birth defects while the average woman has about a 2% chance. They studied this to see the likeliness and the number. My hope for this study is that they will one day be able to make the percentage drop down to the average woman percentage of having a child with birth defects. Many women with diabetes may now decide not to get pregnant because of the risk.

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~Stephanie

Diabetes Hearing Lost

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In resent studies with diabetes it has been found that women with well managed diabetes suffer from more hearing loss then the average woman without diabetes. As for not well managed diabetes woman suffer almost 30% more hearing loss then the average woman. Men with diabetes well managed or not suffered the same amount of hearing loss as a man without diabetes. These scientists have proven that diabetes does infact cause hearing loss and at the current moment there is no cure for it. I think this is a good thing to be researching as anything having to do with Diabetes is, but then again I am a bit bias considering one of my closes friends was recently diagnosed.

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Medical Researchers Joining TB Vaccine Study

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Doctors and Medical Researchers that have been setting up HIV/AIDS stations in Africa to help people who have these diseases are now joined with a TB vaccine study. Enrollment for children and Adults who need care for any of these diseases open up in the next few months if things stay on target. I think this is a very good way for these Doctors and Scientists to be spending their time. Lots of people die from these diseases every year, but not just in Africa, maybe if we start there, soon we will be helping other countries in need.

~Steffenee

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Can Magic Mushrooms Help Depression?

Recent Scientists in the UK have been doing tests on Magic Mushrooms helping with depression, by allowing people who suffer from the mental illness to relive moments in there lives that were happy and joyful. These scientists have preformed two tests, the results of the first already out and the results of the second to be published soon. Out of the 10 healthy men and 5 healthy women that voluteered for this experiment all of them experienced changes in visual perception, and changes in their perception of time and of size and space. I believe that with more study this could possibly be helpful to people suffering from depression, but as for the results of their first experiement I believe that this is not a proper thing for people with depression to be taking even in an experiment.

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Magic Mushrooms May Help Depression

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~Stephanie