Emergency Diabetes Supplies Dispatched to Haiti
BRUSSELS, BELGIUM–(Marketwire – 01/17/10) – Editors Note: A photo is included with this press release. The International Diabetes Federation (IDF) and Australia-based non-governmental organization Insulin for Life have launched a relief effort for people with diabetes in quake-stricken Haiti. A shipment of insulin, meters, test strips and other supplies has been rushed to the Haitian Foundation …

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Newly Identified Gene Variants Linked to Diabetes
Discovery could lead to new type 2 treatments, researchers say.

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BREAKING NEWS: Have you seen Chester Scales?
A 35-year-old man who suffers from schizophrenia and diabetes went missing from North Shore-Long Island Jewish Medical Center on the afternoon of Jan. 9. Police are asking for the public’s help in finding him.

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Staff gets insulin instead of swine flu vaccine
Wellesley school officials said several staff members at an elementary school had to be taken to the hospital after being injected with insulin rather than the swine flu vaccine. Superintendent Bella Wong said no students were ever in danger at Friday’s vaccine clinic for staff at Schofield Elementary School and all the people who got the wrong shot have recovered.

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