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A diabetic dance teacher who played ‘Russian roulette’ with her health for a decade by reducing her insulin medication to lose weight was told by paramedics who blue lighted her to hospital that she was just hours away from dying. Amber Dumbill, 24, from Warrington, Cheshire, who needs insulin injections for Type 1 diabetes, started … Read more
A shop worker with diabetes who was sacked for self-isolating at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic has been awarded a £7,000 payout by a tribunal. Jackie Reid was dismissed by the Good Health Store in the Isle of Man after following her GP’s advice because her condition made her more vulnerable to the virus. … Read more
Quick-thinking five-year-old boy saves mother’s life after finding her in diabetic coma and dialling ‘112’ on side of his European-model toy ambulance – connecting him to 999 team in UK Josh Chapman helped save his mother’s life after she fell into a diabetic coma The five-year-old boy dialled 112, after seeing the number on his … Read more
Her body was found at her £6.2 million home in Hampstead, North London, previously owned by her brother on Christmas Day, 2019. And now seven months on, George Michael’s sister Melanie Panayiotou’s cause of death has reportedly finally been confirmed, following previous claims that she ‘died of a broken heart,’ exactly three years after her brother’s … Read more
Diabetic mother-of-three, 37, dies a week after giving birth to her third daughter and days after messaging a friend ‘I feel anxious bringing a child into this mess’ Salina Shaw gave birth to her third daughter on April 7 and died on April 12 Childminder and business owner from Southend, Essex, was vegan and healthy … Read more
A California man has revealed what it’s like to get coronavirus – saying it hurts to breathe, he almost passed out from exhaustion and can barely walk. Justin Wilhite, 39, from Sacramento, posted his symptoms on Twitter – saying he first got sick around March 4 but dismissed it as allergies until collapsing nine days … Read more
A British man has told how bouts of the flu were worse than his experience with the life-threatening coronavirus spreading across the globe. Andrew O’Dwyer, whose age is not known, tested positive for COVID-19 after going on a ski trip with friends to the Italian Dolomites in February. He didn’t show symptoms for a week … Read more
A national obesity crisis could see another two million people become diabetic in the next five years. The number of people with ‘pre-diabetes’ – those on the brink of type 2 diabetes and who must take urgent action – has leapt from an average of 1.3million to almost two million in only a year. Already … Read more
At least 12 people have died of diabetes in Georgia jails and prisons where they were not given treatment that would have kept them healthy in the last decade. Their blood sugars spiked to many times the normal range, they were flippantly denied insulin, and their their symptoms were dismissed by guards and staffers that … Read more