To date, a little over 3,200 patients, relatives, healthcare providers or friends who have signed the petition at www.HealTheFDA.com. That is ony 15% to our 20K signatures goal.
The petition is easier to read now that there is an exec summary at the start. If you haven’t signed it yet, please take a minute to do so and help circulate it among your friends and family. If you have blogged about it, please consider writing a new post to help remind others…
Here are some moving quotes from the last few hours: these have been some of the folks who have signed the petition at www.HealTheFDA.com.
11:13 pm PST, Jan 28, Carolyn Marshall, California
At the very least, make diabetes treatment more effective because it will ultimately decrease the drain on social services, disability and unemployment resources.
10:27 pm PST, Jan 28, Joanne Cadkin, California
As someone who suffers from diabetes this is very important to me and the thousands of others who suffer also. It is important to the thousands who don’t realize that they suffer from diabetes.
9:46 pm PST, Jan 28, Kathy Shimata, Hawaii
Diabetes can be a difficult disease to manage. If science can help, let’s do it!
6:59 pm PST, Jan 28, Jay Dore, California
I have had diabetes for 36 years through heredity. I am hopeful that future medications will help stem the disease in the future. Some of my current treatments are starting to not be effective for me as they were in the past.
6:11 pm PST, Jan 28, David Adlerstein, Florida
I am a diabetic who knows the gap between what to do and doing it. Please help give us a chance to shape FDA decisions in a way that is best tailored to success for us.
5:09 pm PST, Jan 28, Mary Edelen, South Dakota
Please support more research to find a cure for Diabetes in our lifetime. It is important to listen to patients who suffer from this disease. Thank you.
Jan 28, 2009, Anonymous, California
Current standard diets for glucose control are outdated. This council can more quickly assess new information make it more readily available to patients. Diabetes is an epidemic and new strategies are needed to deal with it.