A Global Call For Action Against Diabetes Launched
Filed in archive Inspiration on August 31, 2006
We're not going to take it anymore. Being fed up with the increasing number of patients afflicted with diabetes, as well as with the resulting costs to finances and health, led to a Consensus Report that demands immediate, thorough action.
Here are just some of the recommendations:
- Public awareness and patient empowerment must be improved
- Healthcare professionals must receive better education about insulin and the barriers to treatment so they can communicate the importance of optimal blood sugar control to patients
- Healthcare policy makers must understand the trust costs of diabetes.
Communicating the importance of getting to goal
- Help improve patient understanding that insulin treatment may eventually be needed due to the nature of diabetes and should be discussed as early as possible
- Insulin should be initiated appropriately and without delay
- Patient preference is important in all treatment decisions to encourage accurate self management.
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Response from:
Daniel Haszard
(10/18/06 5:35am)

I took zyprexa which was ineffective for my condition and gave me diabetes.
Zyprexa, which is used for the treatment of psychiatric disorders, such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, accounted for 32% of Eli Lilly's $14.6 billion revenue last year.
Zyprexa is the product name for Olanzapine,it is Lilly's top selling drug.It was approved by the FDA in 1996 ,an 'atypical' antipsychotic a newer class of drugs without the motor side effects of the older Thorazine.Zyprexa has been linked to causing diabetes and pancreatitis.
Did you know that Lilly made nearly $3 billion last year on diabetic meds, Actos,Humulin and Byetta?
Yes! They sell a drug that can cause diabetes and then turn a profit on the drugs that treat the condition that they may have caused in the first place!
I was prescribed Zyprexa from 1996 until 2000.
In early 2000 i was shocked to have an A1C test result of 13.9 (normal is 4-6) I have no history of diabetes in my family.
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Daniel Haszard http://www.zyprexa-victims.com