Finding the chase and cutting to it

I woke up on Wednesday morning and groaned at the latest “diabetes” story on the radio 4: Diabetes amputation rates show huge regional variation. Rather than teach the newly diagnosed that actually, checking your feet regularly (and if you have a diagnosis of neuropathy, daily) is an effective way  of picking up infections that may lead […]

This year celebrates 90 years since insulin was first given to a type 1 diabetic: before then the only treatment for patients was a strict starvation diet which prolonged lives by not more than a year in teenagers and much less in younger children. Often these children died from malnutrion as well as complications from […]