News media sound bites were ricocheting around the Internet last week suggesting that perhaps type 2 diabetes is an intestinal disorder that can be cured by surgery.
As Dr. Bill Quick pointed out in a recent blog, most of the popular accounts of the disease were overblown; Dr. Quick calls them "another piece of public relations flackery." Like so many reports of new medical advances, these reports in the news media were mostly based on a press release from the hospital where the research...
Saying that operator error is the biggest problem that people who have diabetes have when we check our blood sugar sounds like blaming the... Read more »
Each year, thousands of people participate in several dozen walks around the country in an effort to raise money to cure type 1 diabetes. ... Read more »
In a recent story that I wrote for this blog, Rat research and media hype,I pointed out that rat research can be overtaken by media hype.... Read more »
Time for a little humor (or satire). This was originally published at the Diabetes Monitor as the April Fool's page for 1997 (eleven years... Read more »
It’s downright irritating to have snake oil salesmen and con men continue to confuse Internet readers with claims of diabetes cures.... Read more »
Has the battle to cure diabetes landed Type I patients and Type II on opposite sides? That’s the question behind a recent New York Times article ... Read more »
Canadian scientists say they have proof the body’s nervous system helps trigger diabetes. The research finds that defective nerve endings in mice... Read more »
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