UK Guidelines - Gift to Pharma - on diabetes

From: tcomeau (tunderbar_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 07/28/04 

Date: 28 Jul 2004 11:36:23 -0700

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3930971.stm

Diabetes should be checked yearly
 
Annual checks could prevent the devastating complications of diabetes,
a report says.

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Professor Philip Home, of the University of Newcastle, is an expert in
diabetes, and advised on the formulation of the new guidelines.

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Philip David Home, D.Phil., D.M., F.R.C.P., Professor of Diabetes
Medicine, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK. Consultant for Novo
Nordisk, GlaxoSmithKline, Aventis Pharma, Pfizer, and Merck. Receives
research grants/project support from Novo Nordisk, GlaxoSmithKline,
Aventis, and Pfizer.
(http://www.mca.gov.uk/aboutagency/regframework/csm/csmdoi01.pdf;
accessed 7/18/03)

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Imagine this guy recommending that testing only be done when symptoms
present themselves. Yeah, right. Where's the money in that, eh? Greedy
***. For shame.

TC

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