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Campers (6 to 15 years old who have diabetes or are at risk of developing the disease) have spent the week hiking at Camp Tyler, fishing, swimming at Tyler Junior College, practicing archery, making bird feeders, riding horses and learning how to manage their diabetes.

Star Health and Allied Insurance conducted a students rally to create awareness on diabetes in Chennai yesterday on the occasion of World Diabetes Day. The rally, which was flagged off by Director General of Police Mukherjee, saw around 200 NSS volunteers from various city colleges taking part in it.

The FDA has approved Allergan’s once-daily prescription eye drop Lumigan as a first-line treatment for elevated intraocular pressure associated with open-angle glaucoma or ocular hypertension.

Shenzhen Beike Biotechnology Co., Ltd. announced the successful treatment of two similar spinal cord injury patients using two different procedures that involved umbilical cord stem cells.
One method involved surgical transplantation of stem cells directly into the spinal cord, while the other patient received the stem cells without surgery. The announcement was made following a [...]

The George Institute for International Health reports that populations in rural India may be set for an epidemic of diabetes.

The study, of 4,500 individuals, was conducted in 20 villages from the Godavari regions of Andhra Pradesh. Of those with diabetes, 67 percent were taking sugar lowering tablets, 3 percent were using insulin and 46 percent [...]

A new research says that up to 60 per cent of Irish people with type 2 diabetes receive most of their treatment from their GP.

Over 20 per cent of people with type 1 diabetes are mostly card for by their GP, according to a report in the April issue of the Irish Medical Journal.
The study [...]

The Catholic Church declared that it will excommunicate scientists who conduct embryonic stem cell research because it involves the destruction of human life and thus expressed its opposition to the said research.
Cardinal Alfonso Lopez Trujillo, head of the Vatican department dealing with family affairs told Catholic publication Famiglia Cristiana that “destroying human embryos is equivalent [...]

The Missouri Stem Cell Research and Cures Initiative which has been voted unanimously by the St. Louis Rabbinical Association, would “ensure Missouri patients have access to any therapies and cures, and allow Missouri researchers to conduct any research, permitted under federal law; ban human cloning or attempted cloning; require expert medical and public oversight and [...]

Biopharmaceutical company Genaera Corporation has commenced a multi-center phase II clinical trial to explore the efficacy and safety of higher doses of its investigational drug Evizon for the treatment of the eye disease, wet age-related macular degeneration.
The study is designed to evaluate up to 140 patients with wet age-related macular degeneration (AMD) treated with Evizon [...]

The Nepal Netra Jyoti Sangh ( NNJS) and the Embassy of India in Nepal have signed two Memoranda of Understanding (MoU) in connection with conducting Nepal-India Friendship Eye Camp in various districts of Nepal.
As per the MoU signed on Tuesday, the Indian Embassy is to provide 11.3 million Nepali rupees (161,428 US dollars) to carry [...]