Have any of our members or friends been a part of an official drug (or treatment) trial? I ask for 2 reasons: (a) I would like some of us to talk briefly at the group’s AGM on 20/05 about what trials are like, and (b) I want to follow that up with an article in Barnabas Bulletin where I might like to quote (anonymously) your experiences. If you are able to help, then please drop me an email at keith@barnabasvoices.org.uk.

Many thanks!

The condition, monogenetic diabetes, makes up one in fifty diabetes cases, but it is difficult to diagnose or distinguish from the more common types of the condition – type 1 or type 2 diabetes. Patients with monogenetic diabetes often do not need insulin injections but can manage their condition with tablets.

The test can also detect whether children have inherited the affected gene and will go on to develop monogenic diabetes, typically before the age of thirty.

Read more at https://www.england.nhs.uk/2021/08/nhs-to-diagnose-thousands-of-people-with-rare-diabetes/.