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Nov 14, 2007, 7:53 PM
Canada's largest diabetes centre opens in Edmonton
Jodie Sinnema, edmontonjournal.com
Published: 12:26 pm
Seven years after the idea was first conceived by a group of medical scientists, Canada's largest diabetes institute opened in Edmonton today.
The Alberta Diabetes Institute will bring together researchers in both type 1 and type 2 diabetes to work towards prevention, better treatment and an eventual cure of the disease which affects 150,000 Albertans and 2.25 million Canadians.
Each month, 1,000 new patients are diagnosed in Alberta.
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The new building on 112th Street and 87th Avenue will hold 35 investigator labs for people in physical education, medicine, nutrition, pharmacy and public health. The 23,400-square metre institute is the largest free-standing building dedicated to diabetes in Canada that will be home to more than 200 researchers.
That includes members of the Edmonton Protocol team, who developed an islet-cell transplantation procedure in 2000 that allowed patients with severe Type 1 diabetes, like Bob Teskey, to get off insulin.
That transplant wore off after four years, but Teskey said the procedure drastically improved his life.
More lives will be improved as a concentrated effort in diabetes research from many disciplines will produce results, say institute founders.
"Truly for me, this is a dream come true," said Dr. Ray Rajotte, a member of the Edmonton Protocol team who came up with the idea for the institute in 2000.
Alberta Health also marked today - World Diabetes Day - by making a 10-year plan to raise awareness of the disease. It has given $11.5 million this year for programs that will help low-income Albertans buy some diabetes supplies and send health professionals to visit off-reserve Aboriginal and northern communities to screen for diabetes.
© Edmonton Journal 2007
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Jodie Sinnema, edmontonjournal.com
Published: 12:26 pm
Seven years after the idea was first conceived by a group of medical scientists, Canada's largest diabetes institute opened in Edmonton today.
The Alberta Diabetes Institute will bring together researchers in both type 1 and type 2 diabetes to work towards prevention, better treatment and an eventual cure of the disease which affects 150,000 Albertans and 2.25 million Canadians.
Each month, 1,000 new patients are diagnosed in Alberta.
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The new building on 112th Street and 87th Avenue will hold 35 investigator labs for people in physical education, medicine, nutrition, pharmacy and public health. The 23,400-square metre institute is the largest free-standing building dedicated to diabetes in Canada that will be home to more than 200 researchers.
That includes members of the Edmonton Protocol team, who developed an islet-cell transplantation procedure in 2000 that allowed patients with severe Type 1 diabetes, like Bob Teskey, to get off insulin.
That transplant wore off after four years, but Teskey said the procedure drastically improved his life.
More lives will be improved as a concentrated effort in diabetes research from many disciplines will produce results, say institute founders.
"Truly for me, this is a dream come true," said Dr. Ray Rajotte, a member of the Edmonton Protocol team who came up with the idea for the institute in 2000.
Alberta Health also marked today - World Diabetes Day - by making a 10-year plan to raise awareness of the disease. It has given $11.5 million this year for programs that will help low-income Albertans buy some diabetes supplies and send health professionals to visit off-reserve Aboriginal and northern communities to screen for diabetes.
© Edmonton Journal 2007
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