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Your Diabetes Management is not Futile

by Dr. Takira Glasgow BSc(McGill), MBBS(UWI), MSc IM Dist.(UK), MSc Diabetes Dist. (UK), PGDip Obesity & Weight Management(UK) As seen in the Voice newspaper 8th November 2025 The daily routine of blood glucose management may feel as Sisyphean as leaving an imprint on a world that will forget. Before you surrender to fatalism and declare that resistance is futile, consider whether you have completed all … Continue reading Your Diabetes Management is not Futile

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All is well    

as seen in the Voice newspaper November 9th 2024 Diabetes well- being is closely connected to social determinants of health. Both the external conditions where people live and work, and the internal aspects such as coping skills and self care, play important roles in outcomes. Individuals, families, and society as a whole face various chronic stressors that can feel like “small fires” to be put … Continue reading All is well    

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Prevent or reverse type 2 diabetes with new weight loss medications?

by Dr. Takira Glasgow Bsc(McGill), MBBS (UWI), MSc Diabetes with Distinction (UK), MSc Internal Medicine with Distinction (UK), PGDip Obesity and Weight Management (UK) Weight loss of 15% body weight can prevent progression of pre-diabetes to diabetes and can reverse type 2 diabetes in some cases. Weight loss can also reduce complications of diabetes, cardiovascular risk, significantly reduce medication requirement, and improve quality of life. … Continue reading Prevent or reverse type 2 diabetes with new weight loss medications?

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World Diabetes Day

Access to Education Modern Challenges of Diabetes Management By Dr. Takira Glasgow BSc., MBBS, MSc Internal Medicine (Distinction), MSc Diabetes (Distinction) Are you at an early stage of diabetes or have you begun to have symptoms or complications? If the former, you may have an opportunity to reverse diabetes or maintain healthy control with the help of your diabetes physician. If the latter, it is … Continue reading World Diabetes Day

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Prevention of Complications of Diabetes: an emphasis on hypoglycaemia

“The patient with diabetes who knows more lives longer” Elliott P. Joslin Diabetes refers to a group of metabolic disorders characterised by hyperglycaemia. One (1) in every four (4) adults in CARICOM countries has diabetes; type 2 diabetes is more prevalent than type 1 diabetes in St Lucia. Diabetes (type 2) can be considered a lifestyle and inherited disease, complications of which can affect every … Continue reading Prevention of Complications of Diabetes: an emphasis on hypoglycaemia

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World Health Day 2017

About World Health Day On April 7th last year the theme of World Health Day was Diabetes. This year’s theme was one to which diabetes is linked because this disorder can affect decision-making abilities, memory and self-management. This disease can make persons unable to function effectively or to participate in family or community life. Indeed, depression can also contribute to diabetes and the presence of one … Continue reading World Health Day 2017

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WORLD DIABETES DAY!!

  Happy World Diabetes Day!! World Diabetes Day is recognised internationally on November 14th with the aim of raising diabetes awareness. The theme for World Diabetes Day 2016 is ‘Eyes on Diabetes’. The IDF message for this year is promotion of screening for diabetes and for complications of diabetes. In 2015 IDF noted that 1 in every 11 adults worldwide has diabetes, totalling 415 million, … Continue reading WORLD DIABETES DAY!!

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Update on the Diabetes Cure

Diabetes currently has no cure. If there was a permanent cure for diabetes, physicians would retrieve it from the ends of the earth for their clients, urging governments to mobilise, to seek charitable donations to take it to third world countries. If there was a magic herb, supplement or probiotic pill that was tested and proved, there would be nothing that physicians would not do … Continue reading Update on the Diabetes Cure

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Diabetes in the Twentieth Century

Diabetes was rare before the twentieth century.  Management of Diabetes started with severe caloric restriction for mere survival of patients with type 1 diabetes. Banting and Best, Mc Cleod and Collip, discovered and purified insulin from the canine pancreas.  In 1935 diabetes with insulin resistance was distinguished from type 1 diabetes. Longer acting insulins were marketed from the 1930s while the first generation of sulphonylureas … Continue reading Diabetes in the Twentieth Century

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