Important information to insulin users and healthcare professionals in the UK Novo Nordisk and the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) in the UK are warning the public and healthcare professionals about the discovery of a small number of counterfeit NovoFine® needles on...
News: March 2009
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Counterfeit NovoFine® needles discovered in England (27/03/2009)
Diabetes feature today on Radio 2 (26/03/2009)
BBC Radio 2 programme The Jeremy Vine Show will today be discussing children with diabetes. Joining the discussion will be BBC North America Editor Justin Webb, whose eight year old son was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in December last year. The show airs from 12pm – 2pm and this feature will...
Type 1 diabetes linked to virus infection (06/03/2009)
A team of JDRF-funded researchers from the Peninsula Medical School in the South West, the University of Brighton and the Department of Pathology at Glasgow Royal Infirmary, has found a link between a common family of viruses (enteroviruses) and type 1 diabetes. We know that developing type 1...
Science spending protected, says Gordon Brown (02/03/2009)
Funding for science will be protected from any Government spending cuts caused by the recession, Gordon Brown pledged last week. In a speech at Oxford University, the Prime Minister argued that investment in science and the next generation of scientists is key to Britain’s future. As such, the...
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