| Wales NHS quizzed on child diabetes | | Posted Thursday, October 05, 2006 6:59:43 PM by Blog57 Team | | Diabetes UK campaigners in Wales will be contacting their local NHS Trusts in the next few weeks to ask how many children each diabetes nurse cares for, and what steps are being taken to ensure sufficient numbers of specialist nursing staff. No child with diabetes in Wales should be cared for by a diabetes nurse who is looking after more than 70 children. That is the message of Diabetes UK's new campaign focussing on the welfare of children with diabetes 70:1. Diabetes UK is backing the recommendation of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN), that every child with diabetes should be seen by a paediatric diabetes specialist nurse (PDSN) who has no more than the recommended caseload of 70 children to one nurse. This ratio may need to be even lower in areas with a large geographical spread, cultural variations and language barriers, social deprivation, and caseloads involving less common forms of diabetes, and where nurses have additional responsibilities such as the management and service development.... | |
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| | | Diabetes treatment facilities in PHCs to be improved | | Posted Friday, August 25, 2006 4:59:00 AM by Blog57 Team | | Pondicherry: The Government would augment facilities for treatment of diabetic patients in Primary Health Centres in the Union Territory, said Health Minister E. Valsaraj in the Assembly here on Tuesday. He was replying to a question by R.K.R. Anandharaman (Pattali Makkal Katchi) during the question hour. He said a diabetic clinic was already functioning on the premises of the Government general hospital here and insulin injections were being given at the PHCs. Education Minister M.O.H.F. Shahjahan told S.P. Sivakumar (Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam) that the Government would write to the University Grants Commission to ensure that the Central University in Pondicherry earmarked 25% of the total seats in the new courses in the departments for the students of Pondicherry. He furnished the details of the courses the University had started during 2005-2006 and in 2006-2007.... | |
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| | | Glaxo Earnings Rise 14% on Vaccines, Avandia Diabetes Drugs | | Posted Wednesday, July 26, 2006 10:57:50 PM by Blog57 Team | | July 26 (Bloomberg) -- GlaxoSmithKline Plc, Europe's largest drugmaker, said second-quarter profit rose 14 percent, led by children's vaccines and the diabetes treatment Avandia. Net income increased to 1.32 billion pounds ($2.42 billion), or 23 pence a share, from 1.16 billion pounds, or 20.2 pence, a year earlier, London-based Glaxo said in a Regulatory News Service statement today. Analysts surveyed by Bloomberg News had a median estimate of 1.31 billion pounds. Revenue climbed 11 percent. The company raised its forecast for the year, saying profit will grow about 12 percent. Glaxo is counting on its new Requip drug for restless leg syndrome, renewed demand for the Advair asthma medicine and the re-introduction of a diabetes treatment from the Avandia family of drugs to spur growth in the second half.... | |
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