Diabetes
700 UK people receive a diabetes diagnosis every day. Find the latest developments in diabetes treatment and insights on both Type-1 and Type-2 diabetes.
Putting doctors in patients’ shoes
Clinical staff are being encouraged to experience their patients’ lives, but does improved empathy really lead to better health outcomes?
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Open source technology, enabling innovation
The collaborative nature of open source technology is enabling innovation at an astonishing rate and could hold the key to future breakthroughs
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How teledermatology could help the NHS
For mild or moderate skin conditions, patients and doctors are increasingly turning to teledermatology
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The race towards a bionic future
A future when prosthetic limbs are wired to the body’s nervous system is an exciting prospect that is moving from science fiction to reality
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Is personalised nutrition the future of food?
DNA-specific food, tailored to individual consumers, looks set to open up new revenue streams, at least for niche producers
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Diabetes education needs to improve, and fast
Better advice to people with diabetes could avoid serious medical complications, premature deaths and unsustainable costs to the NHS
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The evolution of blood glucose monitors
A wide range of monitors to test blood glucose levels and unequal access results in sometimes uncertain self-management
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Five innovations improving lives of people with diabetes
Breakthroughs in diabetes care are eliminating much of the pain and anguish of living with the disease, and reducing the risk of life-threatening complications
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More Diabetes Articles
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Finding a type 1 diabetes cure: How tech could help
There have been more advances in the field of medical devices and technology to help people with their type 1 diabetes treatments in the last five years than in the previous fifty
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Time to halt worldwide spread of diabetes
Diabetes is a growing global problem with some regions struggling to diagnose and treat the disease, let alone prevent it with a co-ordinated international strategy
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Diabetes: living with a life-changing diagnosis
Three people with diabetes share their stories of living with the condition and tell of the challenges they face
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Changing your diet is key to tackling diabetes
Reversing type-2 diabetes seemed impossible until research revealed the impact of radical weight loss