One study found that 46% of recently diagnosed adult diabetics (type 2) don't take their medicine correctly.
That could be very useful in patients with adult, or type-2, diabetes.
Parents need not worry: every kids-only area on the boat is supervised by a camp counsellor-type adult, but to keep the loft feeling more VIP than a chaperoned school dance.
It's a wonderful opportunity to review what adult-onset or type 2 diabetics should be doing to prevent complications.
Malignant glioma is the most common type of adult brain cancer.
There are 15 million Americans with adult-onset, or type II, diabetes, and the total is growing fast.
For this reason, many have referred to type 2 as adult-onset diabetes mellitus.
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Already, adult-onset, or type 2, diabetes afflicts about 17 million Americans, although 6 million don't even know they have the disease.
The bigger market is the 15 million people with type II, or adult-onset, diabetes.
The hopeful news Dr Bearman's work brings is that it should be easier to stop the spread of sexually transmitted diseases through a teenage-type graph than an adult one, since the spindly chains of connection between individuals can more easily be broken.
One of the new specimens, known as KMN-ER 62000, has a face like the type specimen of Homo rudolfensis (the fossil that defines the species, if species it turns out to be), though it seems to be from an adolescent, whereas the type specimen is an adult.
Reversing the onset of Type 1 diabetes by turning adult precursor cells from the spleen into insulin-producing cells is a new approach.
Type 2 used to be called adult-onset diabetes, but that term has become less popular as more and more children are turning up with it.
One in every 400 children has type 1 diabetes, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and children are more frequently developing type 2 diabetes, normally an adult disease linked to obesity.
Type 2 diabetes, which is also called adult onset diabetes, is a growing problem in the Western world and is most common in the overweight and the obese.
Outside the U.S., adult stem cells have been used to treat patients with Type 2 diabetes in Argentina, heart disease in countries including Germany, Thailand and India, and babies with malformed hearts in Japan.
On Monday, the 2012 prize for medicine or physiology was awarded to John Gurdon from the UK and Shinya Yamanaka from Japan for changing adult cells into stem cells, which can become any other type of cell in the body.
However, he said that embryonic stem cells remained the most obvious source of cells for such transplants, as foetal tissue - used in some experiments - was scarce, and so-called "adult stem cells" had never been converted into the right type of brain cells, despite 15 years of research.
Statistics expert Professor Patrick Wolfe, from University College London, said the absolute risk of Type-2 diabetes is low at about 4% of the adult UK population.
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