Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 11, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free March insulin implant Likely for diabetes sufferers arrives in Winnipeg Laden with a Lackful Brothers is burdened with problems by Manfred Jager there Are Between and diabetics in Mani Toba and the next major step Forward in improved treat ment for them May Well be the development of what could come to be called an insulin John director of the diabetes cation Centre at the health sciences Centre and professor of Medicine at the University of Manitoba medical predicts the develop ment of such an electronic pacemaker for some Point within he next but at least another five years in an interview marking March As National diabetes month for Moore House said Friday current research in a handful of major centres concerned with diabetes on this Conti nent and in Europe indicates that the insulin pacemaker will be an instrument patients will have implanted under their the pacemaker would con Tain a Supply of concentrated insulin and be designed to mete it out into the patients blood Stream according to the amount of sugar present and in need to be broken Down As Well As the level of Energy both parame ters which can change liter ally from second to the human pancreas does exactly this Moorhouse said medical science is becoming increasingly capable of managing serious and debilitating com plications of diabetes such As nerve damage and breakdown in the extreme particularly the and kidney John Moorhouse Moorhouse said the imme Diate goal of diabetes treat ment is to handle these com rather than to develop such things As an implantable insulin infusion de to me the management of complications is the most important first we must know what is achievable right it is to use to the utmost the Means we have there has been no Advance in those its still the Needle and the nothing has happened really in decades on except perhaps an increasing clarity of with rare sex now is prevent Able As a complication of Dia Moorhouse he said Only one patient in his Centre has lost her eyesight during the past 12 dont get me these patients will get abnormalities their but our experience has been that we dont see the kind of proliferating complication any prisoner charged in stabbing a 28yearold heading Ley jail prisoner has been charged in connection with the stabbing of a 20yearold police say a Man stabbed the inmate in the upper Chest with a knife after an argue charged is Gordon George More that we had to reckon with at one time and that led to you now can hold it Down Short of still is the commonest cause of blindness Between the Ages of 20 and 60 in North Ameri Moorhouse he said this proves that not enough is done to realize the full treat ment degeneration of nerve particularly in the now is the commonest complication of it can vary from simple tin gling in the feet to very destructive severity and amp that is absolutely preventable there just is no longer any with Good control and for this kind of a complication to occur in Moorhouse said kidney disease can be delayed for a considerable period of time but is not yet entirely pre it used to be quite com Mon to Sec a diabetic person dead within 10 or 12 years of Onset of diabetes dead of kidney one does not see this very often any now the Onset of kidney disease can be delayed at least 20 some people will Start getting protein in their urine and after a while of this begin to develop More destructive symptoms and we dont seem to be Able to do too much about Moorhouse said lifespan with the average Quality of treatment now stands at 20 years after Onset of diabetes but is significantly higher in people who follow their treatment regime pain Stak weve seen a gradual improvement Here in recent the scientist i think its fair to say that the average survival after Onset of diabetes is now extendable up to 35 and 40 years with first rate treat ment and by Roslyn Nudell everybody favorite pay Joyce Broth was in Winnipeg the visit was to address the 47th annual con Ference of the Manitoba Parks and recreation Asso but before she gave her talk she was whisked from the Airport by association henchmen and grandly ensconced at the presidential suite of the Holiday surrounded by her complimentary Basket of fruit and with the aforementioned henchmen hovering in the Brothers chatted with various Mem Bers of the Media who trooped one after the to the presidential despite having just disembarked from her Brothers took it All in All those who think the Pic Ture that appears at the top of her column must be Ages old and that in reality Brothers is a wrinkled Blue prepare to be Dis she is an attractive woman and do you want some she offered the photographer and a Nice a graduate of Cornell University an with a from among Many other a columnist and her column appears in several Hundred newspapers and can be found in the free press being a columnist makes for a great Deal of it comes in a great big sack that the postal service it takes me one full year to catch up with my mail after a two week Vaca she Shes not quite certain just How much mail she does re if i counted i would never open it May seem like an awful but at least Brothers does have a con Stant travelling i carry 4 great big sack with wheels any letter that appears in her column is usually representative of several letters she has i read them All so i can get an idea of what people arc worried just what doctor ordered by Ritchie Gage if your annual vacation is a Mere take in seven years we May All have 25weekvacations and retirement at but theres a catch it May not be Good for Joyce the new York Whiz says we Haven Learned How to relax or make Good use of she spoke to 300 people at the fourth annual Manitoba Parks and recreation con Ference at the Winnipeg convention Centre Friday on the subject of stress and Brothers gave a num Ber of suggestions which might improve vacations dont paint your it May ease your but not your dont convince your Friend they should take the vacation you it invariably leads to a miserable choose a if you need a lot of time to Settle after you need at least a two week annual take your own Pillow with it helps you to sleep in strange if you want to meet someone of the opposite carry an interesting it is a conversation on the subject of stress at Brothers said some people work Well under such and that fear and anxiety can produce Good work if we use our Cour she said work is the exterior expression of our abilities and Leisure is for our inner regular work habits and regular play with dare to be silly times Are a guide to Good mental she said physical exercise is better than the strongest tranquil Izer to relax people after a hard Days but she said its impossible to answer every individual no there Arent enough you cant solve everybody problems by mail there is just no in her column Brothers imparts psychological advice and Plain old common but there is still one letter that leaves her Puz i still dont to this if it was a the letter dear i have a problem with please help there was no return and i still dont know if it was a hoax or that somewhere out poor Frank is waiting for my the subject matter that predominates the letters she receives has to do with mostly husband wife prob with Parent child Sec people seem to think that if they get married that Are entitled to if they dont find its their mates who has been married for 28 years to phys Ician Milton said following the precepts of total fascinating womanhood is no Way to help a that sort of manipulation really builds Walls Between Joyce Brothers in any master slave relationship theres bound to be its Fine for a woman to Cater to her but equally important for the Man to Cater to Brothers recently made an appearance on the american television Happy although she does not seem to be a Candi Date for teenybopper Adula Tion Shes but hardly the Type whose face is plastered on shirts a re cent poll of High 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