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JDRF Backs Campaign to Support the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill
JDRF is joining other medical research charities urging MPs to vote in favour of legislation that will open up new avenues of research that have previously been restricted by a lack of human embryos.
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US research shows rise in number of pregnant women with diabetes (28/04/2008)
The number of pregnant women with diabetes has more than doubled in six years, according to a US study. Doctors fear the rise will lead to a greater risk of miscarriages, stillbirths and babies with serious birth defects. More than 170,000 women, who gave birth in 11 hospitals between 1999 and 2005, were examined and doctors found significant jumps in pre-pregnancy diabetes in every age, racial and ethnic group. In the youngest group studied, aged 13-19, diabetes rose five fold, while it doubled among women aged 20 to 39. Women aged 40 and older showed a 40% increase in diabetes over the same time period. The study, published in journal Diabetes Care, found that cases of gestational...
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JDRF Tribute to Geoff Polites
JDRF is deeply saddened to learn of the loss of Geoff Polites, Chief Executive of Jaguar and Land Rover, and supporter of the charity. Geoff passed...
US research shows rise in number of pregnant women with diabetes
The number of pregnant women with diabetes has more than doubled in six years, according to a US study. Doctors fear the rise will lead to a greater...
Research Open Meeting speaker leads team to stem cell breakthrough
JDRF funded scientists, led by Dr Karen Cosgrove, who is due to speak at JDRF’s Research Open Meeting in Bournemouth later this month, have...
Events
The Plymouth Half Marathon takes place in one of the most spectacular natural cities in the country. This popular event sold out before Christmas last year and in 2008 will be the biggest race
