Two Presidential Candidates Announce Plans to Cure Diabetes
Governor Richardson and Senator Chris Dodd
Jo Says: Please … let us all remember that this is a campaign and promises are thrown around like beads at mardi gras. I don’t have any hopes of these type of “promises” coming to fruition, no matter the candidate or party.
Two Diabetes Drugs Double Heart Failure Risk
(HealthDay News) — Patients taking either of the diabetes drugs Avandia or Actos face twice the risk of developing heart failure compared to people not on the popular medications, a new study finds. Source
Jo Says: Talk to your doctor. Have your heart checked. Everyone reacts differently to medications. I don’t take either, thankfully, but there are always exceptions to the rules - and fear mongering.
Diabetics: We want privacy
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Diabetes isn’t infectious like tuberculosis, hepatitis or gonorrhea, so why is the city Health Department tracking people with the disease?
That’s what Melissa of Eltingville, a diabetic, wants to know — for her sake, and the sake of her mother, who also has the disease.
“Every time I go to have my blood-sugar checked, my test results are being wired to the (city) Health Department,” said Melissa, who didn’t want to have her last name included for this article due to fears that her status as a diabetic could affect her ability to get affordable insurance.
“The idea of your privacy being taken away from you goes across all bounds,” she said. Source
Jo Says: More movement into the Big Brother area of medicine. We aren’t smart enough to take care of ourselves, so they have to step in and take over. What’s Next? They go grocery shopping for us so we don’t buy the wrong things?
Diabetes
Type 1 Diabetes
Type 2 Diabetes
July 30th, 2007 at 11:40 pm
Well, you’ll remember during the 2004 campaign and Kerry and Edwards were saying they’d have Chris Reeves walking again with stem cell research…
It is shameless pandering. Even more shameless is people falling for it.