Directorate-General for Research & Innovation logo Horizon: the EU Research & Innovation magazine | European Commission logo
Receive our editor’s picks

Health

Professor John B. Gurdon was the joint winner of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine © Gurdon Institute
interview | health
18 March 2013

Nobel Prize winner who nearly flunked science advises perseverance

‘You will never become a scientist!’ For his teachers, a science career for John Gurdon, was no more than hypothetical. But the British professor who won the 2012 Nobel Prize for Medicine has only one piece of advice for aspiring researchers: ‘Don’t give up!’

Pär Zetterberg © Getty
health
18 March 2013

Diabetes: Patients tell their stories

Diabetes is on the rise all around the world. In the EU alone, there are 33 million people diagnosed with diabetes. They include people of all ages and from all walks of life. The two main forms are insulin-dependent Type-1 diabetes and non-insulin-dependent Type-2 diabetes. Type-1 diabetes, which develops mainly in children and adolescents, is more aggressive. However the disease is not a tragedy, as three ‘Type-1’ patients explain. 

In the lab of the Department of Experimental Medicine based at the University of Leuven, Belgium, directed by Professor Chantal Mathieu, coordinator of the Naimit project. © Lut Overbergh
health
18 March 2013

Tablet treatment could end child diabetes, says researcher

An experimental tablet treatment for child diabetes, where youngsters have traditionally had to inject themselves with sugar controlling insulin, could end up eradicating the disease altogether, according to the scientist leading the European NAIMIT project.

John Bowis founded the EU Diabetes Working Group when he was a Member of the European Parliament © European Union 2007PE-EP
health
18 March 2013

Diabetes – check your feet

Doctors should routinely test people’s feet to check for diabetes, that’s according to a former UK Health Minister and MEP who has become a campaigner for the disease after being diagnosed with it himself.

Professor Frances Ashcroft is a physiologist at the University of Oxford © Robert Taylor/www.taylor-photo.co.uk
interview | health | women in science
13 March 2013

From wild orchids to injection-free diabetes treatment

It all started with the chance discovery of a country lane full of wild orchids by an inquisitive young girl in rural England. That young girl, Frances Ashcroft, would go on to become one of Europe’s leading diabetes researchers.

Pages