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2008: The Diabetes Year in Review

By AmyT on December 22, 2008

It’s that time again. Another year has passed, and one can’t help wondering: was there any significant progress made in the diabetes world?  I guess if you only count “progess” as steps towards a cure, that’s a difficult question to answer.  For what it’s worth, here’s my own list of milestone events that occurred this year:

♦ The ACCORD study results were announced, and interpreted to sound like tight blood glucose control might kill you…

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Diabetes Research Wars

By AmyT on July 16, 2008

One thing about the ADA Conference last month that I haven’t gotten around to reporting: You wouldn’t believe the jockeying for position by these Big Pharma companies around all the research announcements.  What from the outside looks like a bunch of meaningful academic pursuits is in truth pure gold data that fuels streams of business.  So when results are announced, they’ve got to make the right impression the first time.
Allow me to explain a…

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