Stem cells use and cloning, which people in the international community are looking to get banned. Cloning research proponents argue it offers great hope for producing replacement tissue and the potential for a cure for diseases such as cancer, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and diabetes.

I have always been kind of against human cloning, but I have to admit I haven’t learnt enough about it to have a clear argument. But what’s a Diabetic going to do when they promise a cure for this disease? The problem is that they won’t stop at it, and it isn’t a matter of IF but WHEN.

Read on Medical News Today.

With diabetes rates continuing to rise in America, the American Academy of Ophthalmology is calling for screenings for diabetic retinopathy during November’s Diabetic Eye Disease Awareness month. The disease affects 5.3 million Americans. People with diabetes are 25 times more likely to become blind than those who do not have the illness. Loss of vision can often be prevented or reduced if the disease is detected and treated early.

I found the link to this news at TuDiabetes.com:

Researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine have discovered that inflammation provoked by immune cells called macrophages leads to insulin resistance and Type 2 diabetes. Their discovery may pave the way to novel drug development to fight the epidemic of Type 2 diabetes associated with obesity, the most prevalent metabolic disease worldwide. (Read more…)

I learnt that inflammation may worsen Diabetes, but now it’s been identified as a cause. The article states that obesity may be disassociated with Diabetes directly, but I sure hope more people take the necessary steps, if they are overweight (like me), to improve this aspect of their lives and avoid other complications such as heart disease.