Diabetes Vaccine Entering Clinical Trials Next Year This seems miraculous. Childhood diabetes, also called type 1, results when people with a specific type of receptor on their islets cells are infected with a virus. That virus is specific receptor and initiates an immune process that destroys the[...]
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Diabetes: A Business Opportunity for Enterpreneurs
From a Website Devoted to Making Money Off Of Folks With Diabetes The interesting thing about the site is the lack of any mention of expertise! What it does mention is a bit sanctimonious, “Yet despite the potential for profitmaking in a diabetes clinic startup, the field has no tolerance for [...]
November 10th, 2013 - 1:57 pm § in America
Diabetes and The GMO Initiative
The other night at dinner, I had a conversation about Washington States ant 522 initiative requiring labeling of GMP foods. The conversation led to a discussion about the problems most people have understanding the science behind today’s miracle drugs and even foods. For example, David Men[...]
November 8th, 2013 - 2:19 pm § in Hypocrisy
How diabetes generates $$$$
Since discovering that I have diabetes several years ago I have been fascinated by the size of the diabetes industry. The incidence of diabetes, both childhood and adult types, is huge .. totaling as much as 1/3 to one half of the population according to some claims. This means that there is a h[...]
August 18th, 2011 - 11:33 pm § in Misc.
Free diabetes and blood pressure drugs for Brazilians
Brazil is to provide free medicines for everyone suffering from high blood pressure or diabetes. The drug s will be distributed through a nationwide network of budget pharmacies, where many medicines are already heavily subsidised. President Dilma Rousseff said the measure was part of her campaign t[...]
DeSantis does squat for non-wealthy Floridians
Florida Gov. Ron Desantis, who wants to be president, is wildly popular at the ballot box in his home state. One wonders why. While the stereotypical Floridian is a well-heeled East Coast retiree, in reality Florida ranks in the bottom third of average household incomes, and DeSantis has done almost[...]
January 18th, 2022 - 11:32 am § in Health, Law and Courts
Justice Gorsuch is a jerk
“Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch doesn’t just sit in a stolen seat on the nation’s high court,” Huffington Post says (here). “He’s also apparently a terrible co-worker [according to] an NPR report that said Gorsuch refuses to wear a face mask to protect against COVID-1[...]
Can Halloween candy kill?
Sure, if the psychopath down the street laces it with strychnine. But that aside, can you overdose on it? How much would kill you? The American Chemical Society calculates 262 “fun-sized” candy bars or 1,627 pieces of candy corn will deep-six the “average” person. What is &[...]
DIC … the D is for diabetes and the industrial complex.
The Diabetes-Industrial Complex As with the companies that profit from the “military industrial complex,” companies like Novo Nordisk, Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Eli Lilly and Johnson & Johnson com are only the biggest and most visible parts of the vast “diabetes ind[...]