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Health Dept. to track those with diabetes (Purple with Rage Alert)
Buffalo News ^ | 12/15/2005 | Buffalo News

Posted on 12/15/2005 9:24:52 PM PST by Marie

NEW YORK (AP) - Hoping to save hundreds of lives, health officials made a regulatory change Wednesday that will allow the city to track thousands of people with diabetes and occasionally prod them to take better care of themselves.

In doing so, New York will become the first American city to monitor diabetes in the same way health departments now commonly track people with HIV or tuberculosis.

It will also be treading new ground, and potentially raising some privacy concerns, by collecting information about people who have a chronic disease that isn't contagious or caused by an environmental toxin.

The city's health commissioner, Dr. Thomas R. Frieden, said the program's potential to save thousands of lives outweighs what it gives up in medical privacy.

Under a revised city code, most medical laboratories will be required to electronically forward the results of thousands of blood-sugar tests to the city's health department, which will then identify people having trouble controlling their diabetes.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: diabetes; govwatch; healthpolice; idiotsincharge; libertarians; loonberg; mayorbloomberg; myob; nannystate; newyork; newyorkcity; rinowatch
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Don't think I really need to say a thing.

Excuse me. I need to get my barf bag now.

1 posted on 12/15/2005 9:24:54 PM PST by Marie
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To: Marie

Incoming (tyranny alert)


2 posted on 12/15/2005 9:27:53 PM PST by Pikachu_Dad
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To: Marie
In doing so, New York will become the first American city to monitor diabetes in the same way health departments now commonly track people with HIV or tuberculosis.

Asinine comparison. Diabetes is not contagious, so there is no public-health justification for tracking it.

I've been a Type I diabetic for 25 years, and my blood sugar control is nobody's business but mine. This is the price we will pay as the government gains an ever-greater stranglehold on the health system.

3 posted on 12/15/2005 9:28:57 PM PST by untenured (http://futureuncertain.blogspot.com)
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To: Marie
LIBERALISM:

"Because you're so stupid that you need it."

4 posted on 12/15/2005 9:29:20 PM PST by Gordongekko909 (I know. Let's cut his WHOLE BODY off.)
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To: untenured
"This is the price we will pay as the government gains an ever-greater stranglehold on the health system."

Ooh, you forgot the monetary cost. Someone's going to have to be paid to do this.

5 posted on 12/15/2005 9:30:07 PM PST by Gordongekko909 (I know. Let's cut his WHOLE BODY off.)
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To: Marie

Oh government, please hold my hand.

/sarcasm


6 posted on 12/15/2005 9:31:13 PM PST by scott7278 (Before I give you the benefit of my reply, I'd like to know what we're talking about.)
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To: Marie
and occasionally prod them to take better care of themselves.

Prod? By what means?

Does anyone think that this will stop with diabetes?

"Mr. Jones, our records indicate that you didn't have your federaly mandated 5 servings of fruits and vegetables yesterday. Please come with us."

7 posted on 12/15/2005 9:33:56 PM PST by Washi
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To: Gordongekko909
*sniff!*

Isn't that sweet??? *rubbery smile*

It's so cute! *coochy coo!*

But it's going to grow BIG REAL fast! *sigh!*

And a brand new bureaucracy is born...

8 posted on 12/15/2005 9:34:29 PM PST by Marie (Support the Troops. Slap a hippy.)
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To: Marie

Um ... have we all forgotten how to say, "None of your damn business"?


9 posted on 12/15/2005 9:36:37 PM PST by Hetty_Fauxvert (Kelo must GO!! ..... http://sonoma-moderate.blogspot.com/)
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To: Marie

"Honey, why does this baby have this funny mark on its forehead? And why is its head spinning like that?"


10 posted on 12/15/2005 9:37:23 PM PST by Gordongekko909 (I know. Let's cut his WHOLE BODY off.)
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To: Washi
No crap. I can see this going in a hundred directions.

"Ve must repart you to de government! De cholesterol ist too high!"

11 posted on 12/15/2005 9:37:50 PM PST by Marie (Support the Troops. Slap a hippy.)
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To: Gordongekko909

Stop that! It's not polite to stare at the horsemen.


12 posted on 12/15/2005 9:39:00 PM PST by Marie (Support the Troops. Slap a hippy.)
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To: Marie
The city's health commissioner, Dr. Thomas R. Frieden, said the program's potential to save thousands of lives outweighs what it gives up in medical privacy.

No it doesn't.

This should read: The program's potential to meddle in millions of people's medical privacy has nothing to do with saving lives.

Using this kind of rationale the government can track anyone with even a minor aliment with the excuse that it's "for the greater good".

This is nothing short of liberals/socialists butting their collective noses into people's private lives.

13 posted on 12/15/2005 9:40:18 PM PST by Noachian (To Control the Judiciary The People Must First Control The Senate)
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To: Marie

Colonel Klink says: "Ve haff vays of makink you take your insulin."

14 posted on 12/15/2005 9:43:37 PM PST by Gordongekko909 (I know. Let's cut his WHOLE BODY off.)
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To: Marie
which will then identify people having trouble controlling their diabetes.

And for those who continue to resist, how about loading them into boxcars and take them to camps where they can be reeducated or where a final solution to their problem can be reached. After all, early deaths reduce long-term health care costs.

15 posted on 12/15/2005 9:45:39 PM PST by PAR35
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To: Hetty_Fauxvert

Nope and it began with smoking. When they find they can tax it and make even more to help defray the health costs---errr I mean for the state's coffers...


16 posted on 12/15/2005 10:31:31 PM PST by Snoopers-868th (Borrowed tagline: Who do I vote for-the Republicans are socialist and the Democrats are Communist)
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To: Noachian

Have your read your the HIPPA legislation? You know that one you had to sign about a year ago when you got prescriptions, at the Dr's office, dentist, and any other medical type person. You know---that one that improved privacy of medical records--RIGHT!!


17 posted on 12/15/2005 10:33:32 PM PST by Snoopers-868th (Borrowed tagline: Who do I vote for-the Republicans are socialist and the Democrats are Communist)
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To: PAR35; freepatriot32; Travis McGee
What is going on in this country?

What did MyGreatGrandfathers,Grandfathers,Father,Uncles,and I fight for? We all spilled blood and gave ours to spread liberty throughout the world only to lose it here to unelected socialist master planners

18 posted on 12/15/2005 10:34:34 PM PST by vrwc0915
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To: Marie

Tyrants on the Loose Again


19 posted on 12/15/2005 10:42:54 PM PST by GeronL (Leftism is the INSANE Cult of the Artificial)
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To: Marie

Maybe they would do better if they actually tried to kill the infection that causes diabetes.


Title: Method of using IL-11 for treating gingivitis

United States Patent: 6,270,759

Inventors: Keith; James (Andover, MA); Schendel; Paul (Wayland, MA)
Assignee: Genetics Institute, Inc. (Cambridge, MA)

Appl. No.: 337965
Filed: June 22, 1999


Abstract

Provided by the present invention are methods of treating a variety of disorders including AIDS, arthritis (rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis, spondyloarthropathies), antibiotic induced diarrheal diseases (Clostridium difficile), multiple sclerosis, osteoporosis, gingivitis, peptic ulcer disease, esophagitis, diabetes, retinitis, uveitis, reperfusion injury after myocardial infarction (MI) or cerebral vascular accident (CVA), aphthous ulcers (oral), atherosclerosis (plaque rupture), prevention of tumor metastases, asthma, preeclampsia, and allergic disorders such as rhinitis, conjunctivitis, and urticaria



Mastoparan-Induced Insulin Secretion from Insulin-Secreting ßTC3 and INS-1 Cells: Evidence for Its Regulation by Rho Subfamily of G Proteins
Rajesh H. Amin, Hai-Qing Chen, Rajakrishnan Veluthakal, Robert B. Silver, Jingsong Li, GuoDong Li and Anjaneyulu Kowluru

Departments of Pharmaceutical Sciences (R.H.A., H.-Q.C., R.V., A.K.) and Pharmacology (R.B.S.), Physiology, Radiology, and Biomedical Engineering, Wayne State University, and ß Cell Biochemistry Research Laboratory (R.H.A., H.-Q.C., A.K.), John D. Dingell Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Detroit, Michigan 48201; and John D. Dingell Veterans Affairs Medical Center and Argonne National Laboratory (R.B.S.), and Cardiovascular Research Institute (J.L., G.L.), National University Medical Institutes, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117597

Address all correspondence and requests for reprints to: Anjan Kowluru, Ph.D., Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy and Health Professions, Wayne State University, 259 Mack Avenue, Detroit, Michigan 48201. E-mail: akowluru@med.wayne.edu.

Mastoparan, a tetradecapeptide from wasp venom, stimulates insulin secretion from the islet ß-cells, presumably via activation of trimeric G proteins. Herein, we used Clostridial toxins, which selectively modify and inactivate the Rho subfamily of G proteins, to examine whether mastoparan-induced insulin secretion also involves activation of these signaling proteins. Mastoparan, but not mastoparan 17 (an inactive analog of mastoparan), significantly stimulated insulin secretion from ßTC3 and INS-1 cells. Preincubation of ßTC3 cells with either Clostridium difficille toxin B, which inactivates Rho, Cdc42, and Rac, or Clostridium sordellii toxin, which inactivates Ras, Rap, and Rac, markedly attenuated the mastoparan-induced insulin secretion, implicating Rac in this phenomenon. Mastoparan-stimulated insulin secretion was resistant to GGTI-2147, a specific inhibitor of geranylgeranylation of Rho G proteins (e.g. Rac), suggesting that mastoparan induces direct activation of Rac via GTP/GDP exchange. This was confirmed by a pull-down assay that quantifies the binding of activated (i.e. GTP-bound) Rac to p21-activated kinase. However, glucose-induced insulin secretion from these cells was abolished by toxin B or GGTI-2147, suggesting that the geranylgeranylation step is critical for glucose-stimulated secretion. Mastoparan significantly increased the translocation of cytosolic Rac and Cdc42 to the membrane fraction. Confocal light microscopy revealed a substantial degree of colocalization of Rac (and, to a lesser degree, Cdc42) with insulin in ß-cells exposed to mastoparan. Further, stable expression of a dominant negative (N17Rac) form of Rac into INS-1 cells resulted in a significant reduction in mastoparan-stimulated insulin secretion from these cells. Taken together, our findings implicate Rho G proteins, specifically Rac, in mastoparan-induced insulin release.


20 posted on 12/15/2005 10:46:33 PM PST by MedicalMess
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