And I was like, yeah, he has diabetes because I remember he used to take a lot of pills.
He now has diabetes and, as a result, gets his prescriptions for free.
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Mr Vaughan, of Blackwood, who has diabetes and needs regular insulin injections, was last seen alive on 30 December and is feared dead.
Abdel Rahman, who has diabetes and is in his mid-70s, is confined at the U.S. Bureau of Prisons medical facility in Butner, N.
Stephen Smith, who has diabetes, spends about five hours a day receiving treatment in the adapted bedroom of the Daventry home he shares with his wife.
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Mr Vaughan, who has diabetes and needs regular insulin injections, was last seen in the late evening of 30 December in the Abercarn and Risca areas.
Rock music fan Mr Vaughan, who has diabetes and needs regular insulin injections, is believed to have been last seen alive in the Abercarn and Risca areas of Caerphilly county late on 30 December.
In her IPO road show, the CEO could not address the investor audience as individuals for two reasons: less than 10% of the population has diabetes and, far more important, she might have made her audience feel uncomfortable by associating them with a debilitating disease.
The gene produces a protein that already has reversed diabetes in some lab animals.
This has bedevilled diabetes clinical research for decades (as it does in the hypertension field).
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"If someone prominent has juvenile diabetes in the family, we'll find out somehow, " says Roy Smith, a New York University business professor and JDRF board member.
Reagan spoke of a 13-year-old friend who has juvenile diabetes.
Karen Addington, chief executive of Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, has type-one diabetes.
Now 66, she has struggled with diabetes and was once legally blind until laser surgery helped her see well enough to drive.
Erin McCullar, 26, of Birmingham, Alabama, has type 1 diabetes and was laid off from her job as an interior designer in October.
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Their 8-year-old daughter, Adalyne, has type 1 diabetes and celiac disease.
Similarly, physicians rarely know whether a patient with diabetes has access to proper foods or whether someone recovering from a stroke has transportation to her physical therapy appointments.
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According to the latest figures from information registered by GPs, the number of people in Britain diagnosed with diabetes has shot up by 100, 000 in just the last year.
Bristol-Myers Squibb and AstraZeneca announced today that the Food and Drug Administration has approved their diabetes pill Kombiglyze, which combines the diabetes drug Onglyza with metformin, a generic drug.
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.
Over a longer horizon, Bristol still has not performed as well as Novo Nordisk, the diabetes specialist that has outperformed most other drug makers over the past year but which did not do as well this year, or biotechnology firms like Alexion, focused on rare diseases, or Biogen Idec, focused on multiple sclerosis.
The report also points out the NHS reorganisation has led to many diabetes specialists in the community leaving their posts.
More recently a German firm, Boehringer Ingelheim, has developed its own diabetes treatment, linagliptin, with the trade name Tradjenta.
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Cholesterol levels and hypertension two ills that usually go with obesity have been declining, and the increase in a third, adult diabetes, has been small.
For example, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, a community dealing with an epidemic of obesity and type 2 diabetes that has the highest rate of cardiovascular disease deaths in the nation, the award will help 1, 600 physicians and other providers participate in a new community-wide health information system that will help them better monitor and improve care transitions as patients move from one care setting to another.
Ann Keen, the junior health minister, said the research chimed with findings from the National Diabetes Support Team which has published a report on improving emergency and inpatient care for people with diabetes.
The second is The Diabetes Prevention Program, which has illustrated that it is indeed possible to prevent the progression of pre-diabetes to diabetes.
The fact that mortality has decreased during a time when the incidence of diabetes, cancer, heat disease, and HIV has increased strongly suggests, to me at least, that the Russian health system is functioning better than it used to.
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The novel delivery mechanism has commercial potential in treating diabetes, since prosperous countries are full of diabetics.
The controversy around Avandia has increased the hurdles new diabetes medicines must go through in proving safety.
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