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Diabetes Update is Diabetes UK's quarterly publication for professionals working in diabetes healthcare and research. Combining news, features, fact sheets and treatment overviews, the magazine is an accessible source of authoritative, up-to-date information about diabetes care and research.
Diabetes Update is free of charge to Professional Members of Diabetes UK. As a Professional Member, you will also automatically receive our healthcare professional e-newsletter every month and other benefits, such as a discount to the annual Diabetes UK Professional Conference and the option to become a member of the Young Diabetologists and Endocrinologists' Forum (YDEF).
You can join our healthcare professional community for as little as £38 per annum.
Autumn 2022
To get a taste of what Diabetes Update has to offer, you can sample some key features from our latest issue.
Feature Article (PDF 2MB) - Using Comics to Support People Living with type 1 diabetes

Fact File #50 (PDF, 450KB) - Supporting Women with Diabetes, before and after pregnancy (#49).
- Read more about pregnancy and diabetes
Last Word (PDF, 1.6MB) - Dr Mayank Patel - Consultant diabetologist
Medicine Digest (PDF, 383KB) - Women missing out on post-partum screening after gestational diabetes
- read more about gestational diabetes
News
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Letter from Simon O’Neill
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OBE awards for work in diabetes care
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Exciting news from Tesco
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Spotlight on Dr Meera Ladwa
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Upcoming healthcare professional training and events
Research focus
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A game changer for weight loss
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Using AI for type 2 diabetes remission
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Eyes are on a new surveillance pathway
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Open-source aids type 1 management
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Sorting the good from the bad
Features
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Using comics to support people living with type 1 diabetes
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Improving care for foot issues ACT NOW
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Data science investment in cardiovascular disease and diabetes
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Targeting problematic hypoglycaemia
Young Diabetologists and Endocrinologists’ Forum
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YDEF's courses 2022 highlights