quotable quotes March, 2010

Not A Prototypical Chronic Disease

"This is not a prototypical chronic disease because that stress wears on you, and it is way different than any other chronic disease you think about – you cannot walk out of a room and leave your disease management behind you, ever."
Lamont Weide, MD, PhD, FACE (Truman Medical Center, Kansas City, MO) encourages audience members to reconsider diabetes at the FDA Advisory Committee meeting on insulin pumping held in Gaithersburg, MD.

The Cost-Barrier

"I was discussing sulfonylureas with my colleague, and he noted three major benefits; the first is the cost, the second is the cost, and the third is the cost. Simply, everyone wants a Ferrari but not everyone can buy one."
Stefano Del Prato, PhD (University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy) comments on the cost-barrier to new diabetes treatments at the 1st Latin American Congress on Controversies to Consensus in Diabetes, Obesity, and Hypertension, held in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

How to Stop Diabetes Rising

"…focusing on personal responsibility alone has not stopped, and will never stop, the rise of diabetes. Something more is needed: recognition that forces beyond the individual's control are at play, and that united action is necessary to face down what is a public, and therefore political, danger to our well-being, and to the well-being of our children."
Dan Hurley, type 1 diabetes patient, discusses measures to stop the diabetes epidemic in his book Diabetes Rising (available here).