In 2010, the NIDDK allocated a whopping $640,444,000 to projects in diabetes, endocrinology, and metabolic diseases.The ADA’s research funding in 2010 was $33.5 million...
Category: Politics & Business
International progress on non-communicable diseases (NCDs) such as cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular disease and chronic respiratory disease,…
Dear Mr. President:
We, the undersigned organizations and individuals, request that you attend the United Nations High-Level Summit on Non-Communicable Diseases (NCD) in September...
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The Obama administration has taken a rare step and urged the California courts to allow school employees to administer insulin shots to the state's 14,000 diabetic schoolchildren if no nurses are available, according to the San Francisco Chronicle...
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California granted Amylin Pharmaceuticals a temporary restraining order (TRO) related to its litigation with respect to the Amylin / Lilly diabetes collaboration agreement...
Sanofi-aventis and Columbia University Medical Center announced a three-year research collaboration for the development of innovative diabetes medicines. This research collaboration, with the laboratory of Dr. Gerard Karsenty, will investigate the role of the osteoblast-secreted peptide, osteocalcin, in diabetes management...
A new study conducted by the Institute for Alternative Futures (IAF) identified California, Texas, Florida, New York, Ohio, Illinois, Georgia, Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Michigan as “diabetes hot spots,” where the burden of diabetes will be greatest in the next 15 years...
The number of diabetics in Japan is estimated at over eight million, with millions more suffering from impaired glucose tolerance, or prediabetes. The Japan Diabetes Society says that after last week's devastating earthquake and tsunami in north-east Japan, there are 400-500 survivors with type 1 diabetes in the stricken area...
The New York Times reported on the rapidly growing diabetes epidemic in the Middle East and North Africa and the financial burden of health care costs to the region’s governments.
Six countries in the region are among the top 10 globally with the highest prevalence of diabetes. They include the United Arab Emirates, showing the second-highest rate in the world — behind only the tiny Pacific island state of Nauru — followed by Bahrain, Egypt, Kuwait, Oman and Saudi Arabia...