- February 22, 2009
Dallas Stars hockey forward Toby Petersen is a 30-year-old journeyman, and one of only a handful who have combated diabetes while playing the punishing sport of professional hockey. Petersen wears an insulin pump everywhere, even during games.
[Story at the Dallas News:
Diabetes doesn't slow Dallas Stars' Toby Petersen.]
- February 14, 2009
Researchers are trying to develop a special tattoo ink that changes colour based on glucose levels inside the skin.
[Story at Times of India:
Coming soon, tattoos to control diabetes.
More information at
The Glucose-Monitoring Tattoo:
A novel nanosensor could be used for skin-based glucose sensing.]
- February 8, 2009
Chinese police seized a suspected distributor of a deadly fake diabetes drug, which killed two patients last month...
The drug... was found to contain six times the normal dose of glibenclamide [also known as glyburide, a
sulfonylurea medication].
[Story at China View:
Police catch suspected distributor of deadly fake diabetes drug .]
- February 1, 2009
Treating mild
gestational diabetes
cuts in half the risk of delivering an excessively large baby and developing pre-eclampsia, a leading cause of illness and death in mothers and infants.
[Story at USA Today:
Study: Treat gestational diabetes.]
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