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Rate of Diabetes Doubles since 1980 to Hit 347 Million

LONDON/SAN DIEGO – The number of adults with diabetes worldwide has more than doubled since 1980 to 347 million, a far larger number than previously thought and one that suggests costs of treating the disease will also balloon. In a study published in the Lancet journal, an international team of researchers working with The World Health Organisation found that rates of diabetes have either risen or at best remained the same in virtually all parts of the world in the past 30 years.

Low-calorie diet offers hope of cure for type 2 diabetes

Low-calorie diet offers hope of cure for type 2 diabetes June 26, 2011 – The Guardian British study finds two-month extreme diet can cure type 2 diabetes and overturns assumptions about ‘lifelong’ condition. People who have had obesity-related type 2 diabetes for years have been cured, at least temporarily, by keeping to an extreme, low-calorie, diet for two months, scientists report today. The discovery, reported by scientists at Newcastle University, overturns previous assumptions about type 2 diabetes, which was thought to be a lifelong illness.

Study Confirms Schools are Not Ready for Disabled Students

A recent study on primary and secondary level schools has confirmed what many already suspect, that most schools do not have the facilities to accommodate students with disabilities (SWDs) nor do most teachers have the specialist training required to relate to them. The report “Access and Inclusion in the Jamaican Education System for Persons with Disabilities”, conducted in 43 high schools and 41 primary schools by the Centre for Disability Studies (CDS) at the University of the West Indies, Mona, found that only 23.8 per cent of schools have ramps to accommodate students with physical disabilities. Only 23.8 per cent …

The Bahamas – Blind Student dubbed Student of the Year

Hope Town’s Anna Albury trumps 115 candidates for student of the year title. She’s been fully blind since birth, but this doesn’t matter to Anna Albury, the 12-year-old student at Hope Town School who was recently crowned Primary School Student of the Year over 115 of the brightest candidates from around the country. “I am like just any other child. I do not look at myself as having a disability. I just happen to be blind,” said the sixth grader.

Guyana – Visually Impaired Woman Burnt to Death

A visually impaired woman was burnt to death Wednesday night inside the house she was occupying at Stanleytown, New Amsterdam. Dead is 52-year old Hazel Johnson. Her charred remains were found near a door on the bottom flat. The fire occurred at 31 Stanleytown, New Amsterdam. The house was owned by Patrick Benon, who had decades ago headed a secretarial school. The woman lived there for two years.