Today's paper

[RichardJ]

Hi all was wondering if anyone else has read the headline of the daily express today?
A very good report to do with metformin and cancer. But being a type one that injects I was surprised to see a picture of a lady injecting in to her arm. Is it just my ignorance or is the media once again giving the wrong information?
My understanding is that metformin is taken as a pill and injecting in the arm is not recommend.


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[MCMLXXIII]

Gutter press.
You're probably right unfortunately.:-x

 

[anna29]

Hi all was wondering if anyone else has read the headline of the daily express today?
A very good report to do with metformin and cancer. But being a type one that injects I was surprised to see a picture of a lady injecting in to her arm. Is it just my ignorance or is the media once again giving the wrong information?
My understanding is that metformin is taken as a pill and injecting in the arm is not recommend.


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Hi RichardJ ,

Oh dear - this will send out the wrong illusion and impression to those who do NOT know metformin is taken
as a tablet medication .
Seems Diabetes is heavily associated with injected insulin medication portrayal by the media .
[given this visual picture displayed]

This is certainly painting a distorted visual picture to the public blurring the real facts of metformin medication .

Neither correct nor a positive visual image to the public readers of the paper . :thumbdown:

This just highlights how much of Diabetes education and awareness 'is' sorely needed .
So all persons 'know' the real facts and differences of treatments and routines,regimes available.

Anna.

 

[catherinecherub]

I didn't see anyone injecting???
The first illustration is of a man about to take a metformin tablet and the second is someone receiving cancer treatment, probably chemotherapy.
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/384682 ... t-2p-a-day

 

[anna29]

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/384682/Diabetes-pill-beats-cancer-and-costs-just-2p-a-day

Where's the picture of the lady injecting :?:

Anna.

 

[scottish-jim]

I can't see any injecting pictures in the on-line version. Maybe in the paper itself.

 

[Denise02]

It was on the news last night that there is a link between metformin and cancer can't mind what it said but seemingly it's a break thro


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[RichardJ]

The picture is on page 4 inn the paper not sure what pics are online with the report.



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[Andy12345]

no ones mentioned what good news this is

 

[Denise02]

It's something that's in metformin that helps cancer patients so I've heard


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[Patch]

It'll be a stock photo. They probably did a seach in their image library or "diabetes" and that was the first image that came up.

Nothing to do with ignorance - they'll go with the image that'll sell the most papers.