Leading charity Diabetes UK is running regular online sessions for adults in Devon living with type 1 diabetes. Designed to help remove the isolation often felt by people who have the condition, each event is relaxed and informal and welcomes everyone over the age of 18.
#TheBig1, as it is known, originally launched as a one-off face-to-face event in 2018 for older teens and young...
Diabetes UK is looking for healthcare professionals from Devon to lead improvements in diabetes care. The charity is searching for healthcare professionals with a special interest in diabetes to take part in its Clinical Champions programme.
The award-winning initiative launched in 2014, in partnership with Novo Nordisk, is to address the significant variation in patient care and...
Diabetes UK is looking for people from Devon to take on the swimming challenge of the year, Swim22, between 22 February and 22 May.
Swim22 participants will cover an incredible 22 miles – the equivalent of crossing the English Channel. People taking on the challenge can swim in their local pool alone or, better still, with family, friends or colleagues.
One of the city’s largest GP practices is working with world-leading innovators to tackle local health problems.
Beacon Medical Group, which serves over 30,000 patients at five GP surgeries, is working with global names in the creative and technology sectors to tackle diabetes – one of the city’s most pressing health problems.
The slight increase in risk of developing type 2 diabetes during statin treatment may actually be a consequence of having lowered cholesterol, rather than a direct effect of the drug, according to research funded by the British Heart Foundation.
The genetic study found that people with genes predisposing them to having lower levels of low density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol, had a...
A junk food diet can cause as much damage to the kidney as diabetes, according to a study published today in Experimental Physiology.
Type 2 diabetes is often associated with obesity and the number of cases are rising worldwide at an alarming rate. In type 2 diabetes, the body either doesn’t produce enough insulin or doesn’t react to it. This causes an accumulation of sugar (glucose)...
Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust has made a significant contribution to a research study using phone text messaging to help patients at high risk of Type 2 Diabetes manage their health and lifestyle.
The study offers a unique opportunity to those at risk of developing Type 2 Diabetes to receive education and support currently not widely available to them in General Practice by using Short...
Alison Seabeck, MP for Plymouth Moor View, attended the Silver Star Diabetes Health Challenge, at the House of Commons last week. At the event Ms Seabeck took the quick and easy diabetes test to help raise awareness of the need for the public to test for the condition. Ms Seabeck met special guest Hugh Quarshie, who plays Dr. Ric Griffin in BBC’s Holby City and was joining in with raising...
Diabetes research led by the University of Exeter Medical School has underlined the importance of people with diabetes achieving their blood sugar goals, to reduce the risk of complications.
The team analysed people with a specific genetic change (Glucokinase Maturity Onset Diabetes of the Young, or MODY), which means they have elevated blood glucose levels from birth. These higher...
Diabetes UK calls for Government action to end the postcode lottery of diabetes healthcare, which is fuelling a major health crisis.
Ms Seabeck attended Diabetes UK’s parliamentary launch of its State of the Nation 2013 report, which has highlighted huge regional variations in people’s ability to access quality diabetes healthcare. The report also shows that while there have been...
