Sweden and Uddevalla

BetaMed is located in Uddevalla, Sweden.

The company was founded in 1994 as Piara HB and was reorganized into BetaMed AB in 2004. BetaMed works with medical information on diabetes, mainly type 1 diabetes in children and adolescents. However, many adults have contacted us and said that the book is also applicable to them so the title was changed to include also adults in 1998.

Short history:

1995 1st Swedish edition with the title "Diabetes in children and adolescents".
1998 This book was awarded "Best Pedagogical Book of the Year" by the Swedish Society for Diabetology.
1998 First English edition with the title "Insulin-dependent diabetes in children, adolescents and adults".
1999 2nd Swedish edition is printed and the title is changed to "Type 1 Diabetes in Children, Adolescents and Young Adults".
1999 1st Norwegian edition is printed.
2000 1st Spanish edition is printed in Mexico.
2001 1st Dutch edition is printed.
2001 1st Turkish edition is printed.
2002 1st Persian edition is printed.
2003 1stPolish edition is printed.
2004 2nd English UK edition is printed.
2004 This book was awarded "Best medical book for the general reader" by the UK Royal Society for Medicine och Society of Authors.
2004 2nd Spanish edition is printed in Spain.
2004 3rd Swedish edition is printed.
2004 1st Lithuanian edition is printed 2005 3rd English US edition is printed.
2005 1st Russian edition is printed.
2006 3rd English UK edition is printed.
2006 1st Danish edition is printed.
2007 1st Latvian edition is printed.
2008 4th Swedish edition is printed.
2009 1st Taiwanese edition is printed.
2010 2nd Polish edition is printed.
2010 3rd Spanish edition is printed.
2010 2nd Norwegian edition is printed.
2010 4th English edition is printed.
2010 5th Swedish edition is printed.
2011 1st Chinese edition is printed.
2012 5th English edition is printed.
2014 6th Swedish edition is printed.
2015 6th English UK edition is printed.
2017 3rd Norwegian edition is printed.
2018 7th Swedish edition is printed.
2019 7th English edition is printed.
2021 4th Norwegian edition is printed.
2021 8th Swedish edition is printed.
2022 8th English edition is printed.

Besides, BetaMed is a Company Friend of Save the Children Sweden, and supports their work.

The author Ragnar Hanas is a consultant pediatrician and has worked in the field of pediatric diabetes since 1983. He has had the position as head of the diabetes clinic at the pediatric department of Uddevalla Hospital in Sweden from 1985 to 2021, and is now partially retired. He was the Secretary General for ISPAD (International Society for Pediatric and Adolescent Diabetes) 2007-2012 and President 2014-2016. He was the co-editor of the 2009 ISPAD Clinical Practice Consensus Guidelines for the Management of Type 1 Diabetes in Children and Adolescents and head editor for the 2014 edition.