Type 1 news stories.

Encouraging news about the advances of a Artificial Pancreas. I know that the Omega 3 story is based on the use of by women with type 1 diabetes, but even if it said that there is no conclusive prove that it had no benefit for all type 1's, I wouldn't stop taking my daily supplement. I believe a daily dose of fish oil has many all-round health benefits, what do others think?

Nigel

Good cholesterol, typically thought to protect the heart, may do the opposite in women with Type 1 diabetes.

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Interesting one this one, it only applied to very high HDL >80mg/dl and it wasn't that it didn't apply to the men, merely that there were only 2 men with HDL levels that high so no meaningful results.
Moreover it wasn't all the total HDL that caused this effect.
They further subdivided the HDL into HDL2 and HDL3 finding 'These patterns largely reflected the HDL3-CAD association ; HDL2 was not related to CAD.'
http://ww2.aievolution.com/ada1001/index.cfm?do=abs.viewAbs&abs=12798

Since most of us don't normally have a test that separates the types of HDL and I would think very few have levels of over 80mg/dl (2.0688 mmol/l) , the more important thing seems to be that it is better to have an HDL of over 47 (1.21542 mmol/l)