Her husband Dr V B Krishnan has taken up a post as Specialist Registrar in Acute Medicine at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary.
    Dr Amutha Krishnan herself is taking up the post of Specialist Registrar in Diabetes and Endocrinology at the Diabetes Centre at Aberdeen Royal.
    The Aberdeen Royal Infirmary is a teaching hospital.
    They both hope that at some time in the future they might be able to return to Noble’s where they have many friends, and to the Island which they have taken to their hearts and enjoy the way of life.
    Dr Krishnan’s husband has now the necessary qualifications to apply for a consultancy post at any hospital were a post to become available.
    The Diabetic understands that Dr Sasi who stood in for Amutha during her maternity leave, will be covering her post at the Manx Diabetes Centre on a temporary basis.
    In the meantime The Diabetic has been informed that the Centre will be looking to advertise her post in a few months time.
    The Committee, The Friends of the Manx Diabetes Centre, and indeed all those who have come into contact with Amutha, wish her and her husband all best wishes in their new appointments and sincerely trust that sometime in the future we shall be able to welcome them back to the Isle of Man.
   Unfortunately the Scottish gain is our Manx loss.

The Manx Diabetes Centre leads the way in Byetta
    You may recollect that in previous Newsletters we have been highlighting the diabetic benefits of using the saliva of the Gila Monster reptile as a drug in the fight on diabetes.
    Well it now transpires that the drug created from the saliva of this venomous lizard is now available to diabetics in Scotland, but not in England.

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However, The Diabetic, first with developments, understands that the Manx Diabetes Centre abreast with the latest innovations in the fight for diabetes control is now doing trials with Byetta.

Dr Emran Khan

The Diabetic spoke with Dr Khan who told us, “We have started using Byetta in a selected number of patients and auditing our work to see how they are responding” he explained that “it is too early for me to comment on my personal experience with the drug. The initial usage of it in our Centre seems to be positive. The trials have suggested it is a very useful drug in the armament of helping our Type 2 diabetics”.
    Dr Khan concluded by saying “We have not had any restrictions put on its use on the Island and hopefully we will not have to face any”
    We are most grateful to Dr Khan for his comments and applaud his initiative.
    We also thank all Island diabetics taking part in the trials.
    Once again our Diabetes Centre is second to none and leads the way in the pursuit of diabetic developments, diabetic care and diabetic excellence.     Congratulations.

Editors Note:
    I apologise for not having brought out The Diabetic for the September issue, but I had an enforced stay at the Strang Ritz for four and a half weeks, with a gap of a couple of weeks, and then another two and a half weeks, which made it impossible to get The Diabetic out on time.
    Not to mention three amputations and a visit to the Intensive Care Unit.
    The general consensus was to skip the September issue and bring it out in December as usual.

    Again with profuse apologies which were through circumstances beyond my control.