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Heart attacks and strokes, kidney failure, nerve damage, blindness and vascular problems leading to amputation are among the long-term complications when the disease isn't well controlled.
WSJ: New Strategies for Treating Diabetes
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Millions of adult diabetics who need insulin don't take it because they hate shots, putting themselves at risk of complications ranging from nerve damage to kidney failure.
FORBES: Waiting to Inhale
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The unnecessary ill-feeling that these anomalies may create becomes obvious when the Scottish plans are compared with those on offer to Wales, where the government suffered a complete failure of radical nerve, mainly for fear of worsening the Welsh Labour Party's already rancorous divisions.
ECONOMIST: Launching devolution
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Scientists have discovered that, contrary to long-standing dogma, nerve cells in the spinal cord do retain an intrinsic ability to regenerate despite their normal failure to do so.
FORBES: Magazine Article
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There is also a crippling loss of nerve cells in brain areas involved in cognitive functions which leads to the main behavioural symptom, failure of the memory.
ECONOMIST: Disposing of dementia